Rodrigo Barahona, Cert. Psya., Psya. D., LMHC, LADC-1., Faculty, BGSP

Personal Statement
Rodrigo Barahona, Psya. D., LADC-1 is a certified psychoanalyst and licensed clinical supervisor, specialized in addictions, in private practice in Jamaica Plain and Brookline, as well as director and supervisor at the Latino Partial Hospitalization Dual Diagnosis Group Psychotherapy Program at the Arbour Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a faculty member at BGSP, as well as adjunct faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has published and lectured on Modern Psychoanalysis locally as well as abroad. Some of his recent work includes:

Presentations
1. Case Presentation: Clinical work with borderline and "non-neurotic" patients: A Bionian and post-Bionian perspective ( La Clínica de los trastornos limítrofes y los pacientes "no-neuróticos": Una perspectiva Bioniana y pos-Bioniana).  Delivered to the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica. December 18, 2007.

2. Conference organizer and moderator for " Narcissistic Issues in Psychoanalytic Training: Between the Institute's and the Analyst's Narcissism" May 10th, 2007. Presenter: Eddy Carrillo, Msc., MA. (CEP, Costa Rica); Discussant: Dr. Mara Wagner, BGSP.

3. Seminar: Contemporary perspectives on psychoanalytic technique of neurosis: the works of Freud, Busch, and Merton Gill. For masters students at the Costa Rican Socio-critical Psychoanalytic Association. October 30-Nov 2, 2006, San Jose, Costa Rica

4. Conference organizer and moderator for “Why Drive Theory?” BGSP, October 14th, 2006. Presenters: Dr. Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau (PINE, Boston), Dr. Jane Snyder (Boston, BGSP), Eddy Carrillo, Msc., MA. (CEP, Costa Rica)

5. Case Presentation: Dream and the Nightmare as Enactment: Considerations for the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Good and Bad Dreams. Students and Faculty at The Centro de Estudios Psicoanaliticos (CEP), Costa Rican Socio-critical Psychoanalytic Association, December 2004, San Jose Costa Rica.

6. Panel discussion: Psychoanalysis off the couch: Psychoanalysis in the real world. Part I. Students and Faculty of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. January 27, 2006

7. Panel discussion: Psychoanalysis off the couch: Psychoanalysis in the real world. Part II. Students and Faculty of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. April 7, 2006

Media
1. Right, Left, and the Caribbean. La Nacion. (newspaper, San Jose Costa Rica) May 19, 2005

2. Psychologists, Guantanamo, and Torture. Soldz, Stephen, and Barahona, Rodrigo. La Nacion (newspaper, san Jose, Costa Rica) April 7, 2007.

Publications
1. Barahona, R. & Carrillo, E. (forthcoming) Costa Rica: Attitudes towards War, Peace, and Torture in the Switzerland of Central America. State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People. Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger series.

2. Barahona, R (in press) Book review of Perversions: Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Perspectives on Psychoanalysis. Eds. Dany Nobus and Lisa Dowling. London: Karnac Books, 2006.

3. Barahona, R (2004) Conflict and Deficit in Modern Psychoanalysis. The Journal of Modern Psychoanalysis. 29(2), pp. 271-294.

4. Barahona, R (2006) Book review of Key Ideas for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious, by Andre Green. The Journal of Modern Psychoanalysis 31 (1).

5. Barahona, R. (in press) The Dream and the Nightmare as Enactment: Considerations for the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Good and Bad Dreams. Giros, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Contact information
(617) 501-1172
rodbarahona@gmail.com