About my profession

Hello, I am a Master in Psychology, with post-graduate training in the Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico (SPM), with extensive institutional activity and training. I work in general clinical practice, and I team up with other colleagues and psychiatrists.

I work with adolescents and adults, thinking for each singular demand a particular framework, to understand together why conflicts and discomforts occur and thus be able to face them. I also team up with other psychologists and psychiatrists, broadening the spectrum of networked care.

In addition to CDMX, I work with patients from Latin America and the rest of the world, both in Spanish and English.

In addition to the private clinic, I also develop part of my activity in psychoanalytic teaching (transmission) as well as in the formation of groups of supervision of clinical cases with other colleagues; both virtual and face-to-face, alternating territories.

The psychoanalytic field has always been present in my life, starting with a personal experience that led me to today's professional practice. With continuous university and post-university training, having gone through several instances of care at university and institutional level, I am part of the International Psychoanalytical Studies Association (IPSO), of which I am currently its president (2021-2025).

IPSO brings together more than 4,000 professionals from all over the world, from the south (Argentina, Brazil, Chile...) to the north (United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA, Italy... to mention a few).

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Academic background of Erika Lepiavka

| Psychologist

B.A. in Psychology, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2008

 
| Psychoanalyst

Psychoanalytic Training, International Psychoanalytic Association, 2020

Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico, 2017

Master's Degree in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico, 2016.

| Institutional

2021-2025: President of IPSO, a psychoanalytic organization composed of more than 3,000 health professionals from around the world. IPSO is the International Psychoanalytical Studies Association.

2023-2025: Co-chair of the IPA-IPSO Relations Committee.

2023: Chair of the 27th IPSO Congress, Mind in the Line of Fire. Cartagena, Colombia.

| Publications

2024: “Dear institute...” / “A letter to Sociedad Psicoanalítica de México, Mexico City (1972)” / Routledge Editorial.

| Papers

We are made of identifications, presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the European Psychoanalytical Federation, Florence 2024.
 
Evolve or Expire, Is Psychoanalytical Training at a Precipice? Presented at the 2024 National Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2024.
 
The Deepest is the Skin, presented at the 27th International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization European Meeting, Berlin 2023.

When our Fields Burn, a Psychoanalytic Invitation on Thought. Presented at the 53rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Mind in the Line of Fire. Cartagena, Colombia. July 2023.
 
The Feminine and the Masculine of the Mexican, Presented at the 20th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association. London, 2019.
 
The notion of time and its psychic places, presented at the XXX Congress of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation. Lima, 2018. Published in the journal Transformations.
 
La poesía como envoltura psíquica, presented at the XLIX Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Buenos Aires, 2016