José Alberto Moreira Cotta

Post-Doctoral in Clinical Psychology - University of São Paulo (USP), has Graduation in Law at Faculdade Brasileira de Ciências Jurídicas (1974), a Master degree in Clinical Psychology at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC/SP (2003), a PhD degree in Clinical Psychology at USP (2010) as well as a Post-Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at USP (2017). Founder Member of the Prosopon Research Group of the Clinical Psychology Department of the Psychology Institute of University of São Paulo - USP. Invited Professor at the Reichian Department of Instituto Sedes Sapientiae, International Trainer of the International Foundation for Biosynthesis - Heiden - Swisse, Professor of the Specialization Course in Acompanhamento Terapêutico at the Associação de Acompanhamento Terapêutico (AAP). Lecturer in seminars and congresses in Brazil and abroad, has published books' chapters as well as articles in national and international magazines. Psychotherapist, is a researcher in the field of Clinical Psychology, with emphasis in the following areas: the dialog between literature and the clinical experience, the questions of the human exile and the constitution of the self, the Winnicottian theory and clinical practice, embodyment and the contemporary clinical phenomenas, borderline patients. The title of his Post-Doctoral research is "The human exile: a dialog between Psychoanalysis and Literature", with focus on the clinical phenomena of the human exile and its relation to the the theory of D. W. Winnicott as well as to the oeuvre of the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, the 2002 Literature Nobel Prize and an Auschwitz survivor. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)