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Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Skin Patient - Jorge Claudio Ulnik, MD, PhD (Live Webinar)
2025 Grand Rounds Series
There is a relationship between what the psychoanalyst hears and what the dermatologist sees. What the psychoanalyst hears in the doctor’s consulting room allows him to infer that there are unconscious factors which have a part in the motive and the time of consultation, the self-destructive patterns of behavior that make the disease worse, the kind of complaint or suffering that will be privileged by the patient, the acceptance or rejection of a treatment, and in some cases even the location of the lesions.
The identity and the skin, the self-inflicted lesions, the mimetic moment and the tattoos, the hypothetical role of mirror neurons, the death on the skin, the symbiosis, the skin and the gaze, are some of the items in which this presentation is focused. Finally, technical considerations to help psychoanalysts and dermatologists working with skin patients will be described.
Target Audience
______ Introductory X Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
Identify the most common complaints, behavior and the unconscious phantasies of skin patients
Compare the Ego functions and the skin functions.
Apply psychoanalytic knowledge to the clinical practice with skin patients
Prof. Jorge C. Ulnik, MD, has a PhD degree at the University of Granada, Spain, and at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and training and supervising analyst at Argentine Psychoanalytical Association. He is a pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, renowned for his innovative contributions to the field of psychosomatic medicine and psychodermatology. He is an associate professor of pathophysiology and psychosomatic diseases at the Buenos Aires University’s School of Psychology. His work extends the psychoanalytic legacy emphasizing the mind-body relationship, and the role of the skin as a key expression of emotional engagement. Dr. Ulnik founded a psychosomatic dermatology center where dermatologists refer patients to psychoanalytic therapy, integrating psychoanalytic perspectives into medical practices. His work has revitalized psychosomatic research in Latin America, Spain, and Russia, as well as in many European countries and cities like New York, Sydney, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Tashkent. His book Skin in Psychoanalysis (2007), published in five countries and translated into four languages, further underscores his groundbreaking work in understanding emotional expressions through the body and skin. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Ulnik has developed a cinema and psychoanalysis cycle in Spain and videoforum in London. In 2021 he won the prestigious Sigourney Award. He is president of EULAPS (Euro Latin American Psychosomatics School).
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