Denise Gimenez Ramos

Denise Ramos holds a degree in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1971) ; won a Fulbright scholarship to a master's degree from the New School University (1978) and a doctorate in Psychology (Clinical Psychology) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1993). She is currently a full professor at the Postgraduate Studies Program in Clinical Psychology at PUCSP, where she coordinates the Center for Jungian Studies and the Center for Research and Care for Victims of Psycological Trauma. She has experience in the area of Psychology, with an emphasis on Clinical Psychology, working mainly in the following areas: psychosomatics, psychological trauma, cultural complexes as the basis of social pathologies, especially prejudice, corruption and violence against women. In the international area, she is an author and speaker (Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Los Angeles, Chicago, Santa Barbara, Moscow and Zurich). He was chair of the Academic Subcommittee and vice-president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and member of the Executive Committee of that Association for 12 years, based in Zürich. Her book The Psyche of the Body was translated into several languages and became the theoretical basis of Jungian psychosomatics. In June 2014 she was invited by the Russian Society of Analytical Psychology to the launch of her book "The Psyche of the Body" in Russian, to give lectures and clinical supervision in Moscow. It was until 2019, vice president for the Americas of the International Society of Sandplay Therapy. She won in 2016 Capes Award for the best thesis in Psychology in Brazil as an advisor. Currently her main focus has been the study of the psychodynamics of men's violence against women and researching the area of trauma under the focus of Jungian Psychoanalysis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)