ACADEMIC PROFILE

PROFESSION

LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WITH A SPECIALTY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SUPERVISOR FOR THE FORMATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY. Registered no. 3736 Chilean School of Psychologists.

DOCTORATE STUDIES

2013-2014 DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: DOUBLE DEGREE UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE / UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE. Thesis: “Study of disorders of the pre-reflective self and of the narratives of patients with first episode of schizophrenia”. (National Doctorate Grant, CONICYT).

2013 (Feb – Jul) DOCTORAL INTERNSHIP: DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, UNIVERSIDAD DE HEIDELBERG – Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (DAAD German Academic Exchange Service)

2011 (Sept – Dec) DOCTORAL INTERNSHIP: DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, UNIVERSIDAD DE HEIDELBERG – Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Chilean Internship Grant, Doctorate Abroad)

2011 (Feb – Mar) SHORT-STAY RESEARCH: DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, UNIVERSIDAD DE HEIDELBERG – Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Short-Stay Research Grant awarded by the Department of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, Vice-Presidency of Academic Affairs, Universidad de Chile).

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2008 CERTIFICATE IN BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY: YESHE INSTITUTE – current Mindfulness Institute (Grant awarded by the Chilean School of Psychologists)

1999-2001 MASTERS IN SOCIAL COGNITIVE THERAPY (Cognitive-Constructivist Orientation): UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA. Supervisor Prof. Dr. Manel Villegas I Besora (Grant awarded by the Security Mutual C.Ch.C.)

1989-1995 BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY: UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE CHILE (Approved with highest distinction). Certified Spanish degree in Psychology homologated by the UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA and the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS.

WORK EXPERIENCE

IN CHILE 

2013 to present UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES UDP – CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE FENOMENOLOGÍA Y PSIQUIATRÍA – Academic Coodinator.

2007 to present PHILLIPS PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC – Psychotherapy with Adults.

2011-2012 UNIVERSITY CLINIC, PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE – Psychotherapy with Adults.

2008-2009 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL – Psychotherapy with Psychology Students.

IN BARCELONA (2001-2007)

2002-2007 CENTER OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY (PROA) Psychotherapy with Adults (Self-employment) Barcelona Resident from Janurary 1999 to September 2007 

Work Experience from Master’s in Social Cognitive Therapy

2001 CENTRE DE SALUT MENTAL Maresme Sud I Nord (Masnou/Calella) Individual Psychotherapy to Adults.

2000 CENTRE DE SALUT MENTAL Baix de Llobregat (El Prat de Llobregat) Monitoring, Evaluation and Analysis of Clinical Cases.

2000 CENTRE INTEGRAL DE SALUT CIS – Individual Psychotherapy to Adults.

1999 CENTRE DE SALUT MENTAL Alt Penedes-Garraf (Vilanova I la Geltrú)

Monitoring, Evaluation and Analysis of Clinical Cases.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

2013 /2014 CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE FENOMENOLOGÍA Y PSIQUIATRÍA – UDP

Research in Intercultural Clinical Etiology of Patients with Psychotic Disorders and Serious Mental Disorders: “Potential phenomenological markers for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder”2012 UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES – Teaching Seminar on the Cognitive-Constructivist Perspective

2011 UNIDAD DE SALUD MENTAL – IQUIQUE – Training and clinical supervision: Workshop on psychotherapeutic techniques for the treatment of depression

2010 CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES & UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (Project financed by Welcome Trust) Clinical supervision of intervention phase: “School-based Intervention to Improve Mental Health of At-Risk Youth”.

2009 CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE & UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (Project financed by Welcome Trust) Clinical supervision of intervention phase: “School-based intervention to improve the mental health of low-income, secondary school students in Santiago, Chile.

EVENTS AND COURSES

Participation in “Future of Embodied Mind”. eSMCs Summer School 2011
San Sebastián, Spain, September 5th-9th, 2011 (http://summerschool2011.esmcs.eu/)

Participation in the “Introductory Course EASE Examination of Anomalous Self-experience”. September 12th-14th, 2011. Mental Health Center Hvidovre, Broendby, Denmark (www.easenet.dk) (CONICYT Grant, Events and Short Courses Abroad 2011)

Participation in “Embodied and Embedded Approaches to the Self in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine Autumn School”: Heidelberg, October 24th-28th, 2011 (http://autumnschoolheidelberg.wordpress.com/

Co-organization and presentation in the “Seminar Phenomenology of the Corporeality: health and illness”. Santiago, November 14th, 2012.

(http://artesyhumanidades.unab.cl/fenomenologia-de-la-corporalidad-salud-y-enfermedad/)

Co-organization of International Symposium “100 Years of Karl Jaspers Psychopathology”. Santiago, October 25th, 2013

(www.centrodefenomenologia.udp.cl) 

Poster presentation: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study of schizophrenia. International Psychiatric Conference: Neurobiology and Complex Treatment of Psychiatric disorders and Addiction, 5-7 June, Warsaw, Poland.

Co-organisation I Jornada de Fenomenología y Psiquiatría: Perspectivas interdisciplinarias de investigación, en coordinación con la Academia Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina ACEM-UD (1st Conference on Phenomenology and Psychiatry: Interdisciplinary perspectives of research (in coordination with the Scientific Academy of Students of Medicine, Diego Portales University), 22 March 2014. Auditorio Biblioteca Nicanor Parra. Oral presentation: Esquizofrenia: Análisis fenomenológico-hermenéutico de la vivencia del cuerpo y del mundo (Schizophrenia: Phenomenological-hermeneutic analysis of the experience of the body and the world) 

Co-organisation International Symposium “Tendencias actuales en cognición social y neurofenomenología (Current tendencies in social cognition and neurophenomenology). Santiago, 24 October 2014. Auditorio Biblioteca Nicanor Parra. Oral presentation: Introduction

Co-organisation “17th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology”, 9-31 October 2015, Teatro del Lago, Frutillar, Chile 

(www.inpp2015.com)

PUBLICACTIONS

Irarrázaval, L. (2015). The lived body in schizophrenia: transitions from basic self-disorders to full-blown psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry 6:9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00009
Index: ISI

Irarrázaval, L., Sharim, D. (2014). Intersubjectivity in schizophrenia: Life story analysis of three cases. Front. Psychol. 5:100. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00100
Index: ISI

Irarrázaval, L. (2013). Psychotherapeutic implications of self disorders in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 67, 3: 277-292.
Index: PubMed

Peralta, G., Irarrázaval, L. (2012). La psicopatología en los inicios de la modernidad en América Latina. Análisis historiográfico de un caso clínico: “La Endemoniada de Santiago”. Revista Gaceta de Psiquiatría Universitaria, 8, 4: 434-442.

Parnas J., Moeller P., Kircher T., Thalbitzer J., Jansson L., Handest P., Zahavi D. (2011). EASE: Examen de Anomalías Subjetivas de la Experiencia (desórdenes del self). O. Dörr & L. Irarrázaval, Trad. Revista Gaceta de Psiquiatría Universitaria, 7, 4, 439-467.

Irarrázaval, L. (2011). Espectro Esquizofrénico: Retrospectivas para el futuro de la psicoterapia. Revista de Psicoterapia, Vol. XXII, 85, 47-59.

Irarrázaval, L. (2010). Psicoterapia Basada en Mindfulness: Un antiguo método para una nueva psicoterapia. Revista Gaceta de Psiquiatría Universitaria, 6,4, 465-471.

Irarrázaval, L. (2010). Desarrollo del “Taller Yo Pienso, Yo Siento, Yo Actúo” desde la perspectiva de la Supervisión. Revista de Psiquiatría Clínica. 47 (1): 49-56.

Vöhringer, P., Martínez, V., Figueroa, A., Araya, R., Gómez, A., Irarrázaval, L., Barroilhet, S., Guajardo, V., Fritsch, R., Rojas, G. (2010). “Yo Pienso, Siento, Actúo”: Una intervención universal para la prevención de la depresión en escolares chilenos. Revista de Psiquiatría Clínica. 47(1): 37-48.

Irarrázaval, L. (2005). Un Marco Narrativo-Histórico para la Terapia Post-racionalista: Actualización de los principios terapéuticos. Revista de Psicoterapia. Vol.XVI, Nº 63/64, 155-177.

Irarrázaval, L. (2003). Estado Psicótico Maniacal. Una aproximación post-racionalista. Revista de Psicoterapia. Vol. XIV, Nº 56, 63-82.