Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez

Areas of interest

Discursive spaces of trauma and healing within the mental health institution, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and the entwinement between the social and the individual.

Education

• PhD, Geography, Simon Fraser University
• MA, Literature, University of British Columbia
• MA, Clinical Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Biography

Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez works as a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Vancouver, Canada. She has a vast clinical experience in public and private settings in Mexico and Canada. She has a Master’s degree in clinical psychology by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), a Master’s Degree in literature by University of British Columbia (UBC), and a PhD in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University (SFU), with a research study on discursive spaces of trauma and healing within the mental health institution. She co-founded the Lacan Salon in 2007 and currently serves as its clinical director. She has published various articles and book chapters on the theory and practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, looking at the entwinement between the social and the individual.