Docente

Mônica BOTELHO ALVIM, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Gestalt-therapist, trainer and supervisor in private practice. Ph.D. in psychology and postdoctorate in contemporary philosophy from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. President of the Brazilian Association of Gestalt Therapy (ABG). Founding member of the Institute of Gestalt Therapy in Brasilia and member of the editorial board of the Revista da Abordagem Gestaltica-Phenomenological Studies (Journal of Gestalt Approach-Phenomenological Studies). Editor of the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia (Brazilian Archives of Psychology). Professor and permanent member of the graduate program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She researches the theoretical-methodological dimensions of Gestalt therapy in psychotherapeutic and community contexts from an interdisciplinary dialogue with phenomenology and contemporary art, having Merleau-Ponty as a main author in the field of philosophy. Researcher and coordinator of NEIFECS - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Phenomenology and Clinical of Contemporary Situations, she investigates contemporary subjectification processes and structural social phenomena, such as race, gender and class. Author of the book "The Poetics of Experience: Gestalt-therapy, Phenomenology and Art," organizer and co-author of other books, chapters and articles, in Brazil and abroad. Contact: mbalvim@gmail.com