Gerardo Requiz Email & Phone Number

As a Lacanian-oriented psychoanalyst I treat what is not going on in our lives that produces discomfort, distress, suffering and symptoms: addictions, anorexia, bulimia, phobias, obsessions, hypochondria, difficulties with social bonds, couples, identity, sexuality, depression, anguish, migrations, among others.I research the impact of the cultural code’s transformations on our subjectivity, such as the decline of the father figure, the current manifestations of sexuality, female empowerment and liberation, and the pros and cons of globalization.I am a psychoanalyst, AME, member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis and the NEL. I attend my private practice in person or online in Spanish and English.Speaker at psychoanalytical international forums and congresses in Venezuela, Spain, United States, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, France, Italy, Brazil, Cuba and lecturer in museums and universities in various countries. Guest Professor of the Literature School and the Psychology School at Central University of Venezuela 1994-96I publish abstracts in books and international specialized magazines (several with translations in 5 languages). Author of the book "Addictions and contemporary discontent"Director of the School of the Freudian Field of Caracas 1998-2000. Former director and active teacher of the Research and Teaching Center (CID) of the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana of NEL Caracas, associated to The Institutes of the International Freudian Field. Director of the Centro Fundanalitica, for the treatment of drug addicts, 1999-2003.Psychology degree from Fordham University, New York, 1974, a Clinical Psychologist postgraduate degree from Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital, Caracas, 1975-77 and a philosophy post graduate basic course at Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, 1995-98Deeply linked to art, music, trained as a violinist, and founding member of El Sistema, the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, UNESCO`S world heritage