Prof. Dr. Jorge C. Ulnik

ARGENTINA

Psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and training and supervising analyst at Argentine Psychoanalytical Association.
Ph Degree at the University of Granada, Spain.
Ph Degree at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professor of Psychosomatics at the School of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and Staff Teacher at the Postgraduates Department of University Favaloro (Buenos Aires).
Professor at the Psychiatry and Mental Health Department at the Medicine School at the University of Buenos Aires. In charge of the Unit 41 – Pirovano Hospital, Buenos Aires City – Argentina.
Evaluator of the Master’s Degree in Psychoanalysis at `Centro Uno´, appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. October, 2022.
Professor in charge of the Area of Psychosomatics at the Master Degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Complutense University of Madrid. (2000-2020)
Lecturer at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (September, 29th, 2011). Title of the lecture: “Combining emotions and somatic-psychosomatic diseases”
Invited lecturer at Psychoanalytical Institutes in Portugal (Porto and Lisboa), Australia (Sydney Institute of psychoanalysis), Italy (Padova and Bologna), Brazil (Sao Paulo), and other psychoanalytic institutions and dermatology services in Spain, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.
Visiting Professor, earned by international competitive examination in the “Programa Cátedra Fundación BBVA” (Spain, 2000). Invited professor in Madrid, Sevilla, Gijón, Bilbao, Cartagena, Aguilas, Barcelona, Málaga, Murcia, Tenerife, Valencia and Zaragoza (Spain).
Lecturer in the cycle “cinema and psychoanalysis” in Murcia, (Cajamurcia 2004-2011), Psychoanalytic Private Center in Madrid(2014) and Medical Foundation of Molina de Segura (2012), Spain.
Coordinator of interdisciplinary teams, especially in the dermatology area. Member of the Editorial Board of Archivos Argentinos de Dermatología and Dermatología Argentina. (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Reviewer of British Journal of Dermatology, and Acta Dermato-Venereologica.
Invited Speaker (Faculty member) in Psychosomatic Dermatology in the World Congress of Dermatology (Buenos Aires, 2009 and Seul, Korea, 2011), and European Society of Dermatology and Psychiatry (ESDaP) congresses (Venice, Italy, 2009; Zaragoza, Spain, 2011; Roskilde, Denmark, 2013; St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015)
Private practice of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, Argentina
In New York (USA): Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) (funded by CAPSA- International Psychoanalytical Association) providing a conference open to the public and supervision of the Institution’s candidates and instructors. (22 to 24 March 2019). Visiting Professor at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on June 7, 2022.
In Russia: President, together with Lic. Irina Korosteleva, of the VI International Congress: “Body in psychoanalysis. Relationships with the other. Playing, sublimation, diseases: different fates of drives”. Co-director, together with Lic. Irina Korosteleva, of the international postgraduate course: “Body psychoanalysis and clinical psychosomatics”. October 2018-June 2020 / October 2020 – June 2022 / October 2022-June 2024 (ongoing). Co-director of the international congresses held in Moscow by EULAPS in 2018-2022.

Publications

In Spanish: 22 published papers, 18 consulting university booklets, 6 book’s chapters and two books.
In English:
- “Psychological Evaluation of the Dermatology Patient: A Psychoanalyst’s Perspective”. Clinics in Dermatology (2013) 31,Number 1, January/february 2013: pp. 11-17. (0738-081X) Elsevier. USA.
- Martín-Brufau R, Romero-Brufau S, Martín-Gorgojo A, Brufau Redondo C, Corbalan J, Ulnik J. “Psoriasis lesions are associated with specific types of emotions. Emotional profile in psoriasis”.Eur J Dermatol. 2015 Jul-Aug;25(4):329-34.
- Ulnik JC, Linder MD. The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Symptoms – Evidence and Benefits. Acta Derm Venereol. 2016 Aug 23;96(217):22-4

Awards

Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Work in the World. The Sigourney Award, 2021.

Books

- Last book: El psiconálisis y la piel (ed. Sintesis, Madrid, 2004) (Ed. Paidos, Buenos Aires, 2011. Translated to English – Skin in psychoanalysis – and published by Karnac Books, London, England, 2007 . Translated to Italian and published in Rome, Italy (Ubaldini-Astrolabio publishers, 2011). Translated to Russian, and published in Moscow, Russia (Cogito Centre, 2017)

Book Chapters published in English:

- “Psychoanalysis in Psycho-dermatological diseases”. In: E-Book: Skin and the psyche. Bentham Publisher.