Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches

About Carlos E. SluzkiCarlos Guillermo BiglianiRodolfo Moguillansky

Carlos Guillermo Bigliani MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst researcher and professor in the department of occupational medicine University of Buenos Aires Medical School; Professor of the Seminar on Neuroses University of Buenos Aires School of Psychology; Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Sedes Sapientiae Post-Graduate Institute (S#257;o Paulo Brazil); and Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychopathology and Family Therapy at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica (S#257;o Paulo Brazil). He is a member of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association the International Psychoanalytical Association and the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and board member of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Organization. Rodolfo Moguillansky MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and Professor at the Buenos Aires Institute of Mental Health University of Buenos Aires Medical School. He is a full member of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association the International Psychoanalytical Association and the International Federation of Psychotherapy Associations. He has been awarded the Bleger (1998) and Storni (2000) prizes by the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association the Liberman prize (1999) by the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association and the FEAP prize (2008) by the Spanish Federation of Psychotherapy Associations. Carlos E. Sluzki MD was trained in psychiatry in the department of psychopathology G.A. Alfaro General Hospital in Lanus (Argentina); in psychoanalysis at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association; and in family therapy at the Mental Research Institute (Palo Alto California) where he was Director (1980-1983). He has been professor of psychiatry at the Universities of San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; advisor at the World Health Organisation the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is currently a professor in the department of global and community health and at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University Arlington Virginia and clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at George Washington University in Washington DC.