Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi, Ph.D.
University of São Paulo (USP)
Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto
Department of Psychology and Education
Av. Bandeirantes, 3900 – Bloco 3 – 14040-901
Ribeirão Preto – São Paulo – Brazil
Phone: +55 (16) 3602-4446
Phone/Fax: +55 (16) 3633-5668
Email:
carlaguanaes@gmail.com
Carla Guanaes, PhD is a psychologist and family therapist. She is a
professor at the Department of Psychology and Education at the Faculty
of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto at the
University of São Paulo (Ribeirão Preto – São Paulo – Brazil). This
University has a very strong reputation, particularly for its academic
tradition in research. Her activity at the Department of Psychology
includes training, supervision and research on group dynamics and family
therapy, based on a social constructionist approach.
Carla’s research interests address different issues in
psychotherapeutic practice. Her major focus is on the embodied,
relational and conversational processes in individual, family or group
therapy. She places special emphasis on the discursive, relational and
embodied activities that take place in the therapeutic context, through
which people can create new possibilities to describe their lives and
selves. In other words, she focuses on how people can create together,
through dialogical and responsive forms of talk, new forms of life.
She is author of the book The construction of change in group
therapy: a social constructionist approach (A construção da mudança em
terapia de grupo: um enfoque construcionista social, São Paulo, Vetor,
2006) and of many articles and book chapters in which she contributes
with psychological theory and practice, based on a conversational
perspective. Some of her recent writing includes: GUANAES, C.; JAPUR, M.
Contribuições da poética social à pesquisa em psicoterapia de grupo.
Estudos de Psicologia, Natal, 2008, in press. (Contributions of social
poetics on group psychotherapy research). GUANAES, C.; MATTOS, A.T.R. O
grupo de reflexão na formação do profissional de saúde: um enfoque
construcionista social. Gerais: Revista Interinstitucional de
Psicologia, n. 1, v.1, 79-85, 2008. (The use of the reflection group in
health care professional training: a social constructionist approach).
JAPUR, M. GUANAES, C.; RASERA, E.F. Otherness in the therapeutic
context: the social construction of change. In: Lívia Mathias Simão;
Jann Valsiner. (Ed). Otherness in question. Charlotte, North Carolina:
Information Age Publishing, 2007 p. 125-161.
