Tanja Joy Schöner Lopes

 Training, knowledge, specialisations and work philosophy  My education began in 1979 in Brazil, at the Swiss School of São Paulo, where I graduated from MATURA in 1992. In 1993 I obtained the TOEFL certificate at the International University of Florida in Miami, USA.  From 1993 to 1995 I studied at the Lausanne School of Hotel Management (École Hôtelière de Lausanne, EHL), which gave me excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.  My psychology career in Brazil spanned 13 years before moving to Lisbon, Portugal in 2016. My passion for psychology is based on a deep interest in human behaviour and a commitment to helping people overcome their problems.  From 1997 to 2003, I completed my training in Psychology at the University of Cuiabá (UNIC) in Brazil. During my studies, I learnt about various psychological approaches, and I was particularly fascinated by the works of Sigmund Freud.  After graduating from university, I specialised in clinical psychology with a psychoanalytic approach at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC/PR) in Curitiba, Brazil, from 2008 to 2009.  Professional career and values  Psychoanalysis is based on the assumption that people do not know all the factors that influence their lives. According to Freud, many conflicts are repressed into the subconscious, often as early as childhood. The aim of psychoanalysis is to uncover these unconscious conflicts and help patients to recognise the causes. This can be helpful for mental illnesses such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, addictions or personality disorders.  Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is based on Freud's work and has developed it further, is based on the ethics of "saying good things" (éthique du bien-dire) through the "free association" of thoughts.  In the second year of my studies (1999) I began my further training in psychoanalysis at the Laço Analítico Escola de Psicanálise (LAEP), including personal analysis and supervision of clinical cases.  After my training in psychology and specialisation in clinical psychology, I completed further clinical and theoretical training in psychoanalysis at the Associação Psicanalítica de Curitiba (APC) from 2008 to 2012.  Back in São Paulo, I continued my training in Lacanian psychoanalysis at the Escola de Psicanálise do Fórum do Campo Lacaniano de São Paulo (EPFCL-SP).  In February 2016, I moved to Lisbon, Portugal and from 2016 to 2017 I took part in a distance learning programme in psychopathology through the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) in Paris, France.  I began to participate in the seminars of the Association Lacanienne Internationale - A.L.I. in Paris, as well as in the seminars of the Centro Português de Psicanálise - CPP / A.L.I. There I was appointed as an analytical member and coordinator of the School of Baby, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis.  I am currently an accredited member of the Association Lacanienne Internationale iin Paris (A.M.A. - A.L.I.) and actively participate in theoretical and clinical seminars on topics such as autism and prevention through early intervention. I am a member of several international associations and research groups focussing on the relationship between mother and child and the prevention of mental illness. 

Since moving to Zurich, I have also regularly taken part in events organised by the Lacan Seminar Zurich - LSZ. Academic and professional affiliations  My scientific affiliations include:  - PREAUT - Autism Prevention (Brazil, France) - RIEPPI Network - International Network for Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology of the Child - Associação Ser Bebé (Portugal) - Rede Bebê (Lisbon, Portugal) - Fadenspule - Meeting place for young children and their parents (Zurich, Switzerland)  My desire to work with the means of psychoanalysis in the social field led me to offer further training and lectures for professionals and families in the early childhood sector. Topics included the importance of the first years of life, child psychosocial development and signs of psychological distress in babies and toddlers. This is also the topic of the PhD thesis I have started. In January 2023, I completed the first year of the doctoral programme in clinical psychology at the University of Lisbon with distinction.  My academic qualifications in psychology are fully recognised in Switzerland and I have already obtained membership of the FSP - ZÜPP.  I am fluent in German (mother tongue), Swiss German, French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.  I have over 20 years of international professional experience in my own practice for psychology and psychoanalysis, where I look after adults, adolescents, children and babies with their mothers. From 2010 to 2015 I also worked in psychological counselling and project support at the Swiss schools in Curitiba and São Paulo, Brazil.  Publications and communications  Publications:  - "Play and the problematic of desire in modernity" in "The screens of our children. The best or the worst?", Éditions Érès, Toulouse, France, 2017. - "Le sujet en constitution, le jeu et la problématique du désir dans la modernité" in "Malaise et Subjectivité", volume XI, number 1, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 2011.  Communications:  18-23/11/2022 - Delivered the lecture "Signs of mental distress in infants" and presented the oral communication "Recognising signs of mental distress in the first year of life: psychoanalytic contributions to early intervention in Portugal" in the II Luso-Brazilian Interdisciplinary Clinical Seminar - Art, Health and Creativity - The body between pleasure and pain" - Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal.  27/05/2022 - 27/05/2022 - Animation of the series of discussions with the lecture "The importance of the first years of life" and the workshop "Signs of mental distress in babies", Loulé Town Hall, Portugal.  29/04/2021 - Participation in the International Congress: Health Literacy and Self-Care - evidence that project the clinical practice, with the lecture "The very early promotion of mental health: the clinical indicators of psychic development and literacy of health professionals in early childhood", Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal.  29 July - 1 August 2020 - Certificate of participation in the VI Transdisciplinary Congress on Children and Adolescents, with the presentation of the paper "Father function and phobia - A child is never alone with its mother", Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.  17-18/01/2020 - Certificate of participation in the II Transdisciplinary Portuguese-Brazilian Congress on the Baby with the presentation of the paper "Evaluation of clinical indicators of psychic development, prevention and early intervention in mental health of children", University of Évora (Centre for Educational Research and Psychology and Department of Psychology), Portugal.  25/09/2019 - Speaker at the Luso-Brazilian clinical and interdisciplinary seminar "Art, Health and Creativity", University Fernando Pessoa, with the lecture "Play and the problem of desire in modernity", Portugal.  29/08/2019 - Lecture at the ALI/CPP Summer Seminar "The Object Relationship" with the theme "Phobia and Paternal Function" at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.  18/03/2019 - Seminar at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra on "Positive developmental signs and early signs of suffering in the baby", organised by BabyLab UC, Coimbra, Portugal.  11/02/2019 - Seminar at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, on "Psychological Health and Illness in the Baby", organised by BabyLab UC, Coimbra, Portugal.  12-13/01/2018 - Certificate of Participation for the 1st Transdisciplinary Congress Portugal/Brazil on the Baby, with the presentation "Development, Subjective Constitution and Prevention in Mental Health", University of Évora (Centre for Educational Research and Psychology and Department of Psychology), Portugal.  30/10/2015 - Certificate and presentation of the lecture: "Education and the desire of knowledge: from autonomy to authenticity" - National Meeting of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field, EPFCL - Curitiba, Brazil.  19/11/2009 - Certified speaker at the IV Interinstitutional Forum and IV Mental Health Meeting of the PUC/PR on "The subject in constitution, the game and the problem of desire in modernity" - Curitiba, Brazil.  30.04.2006 - Certificate of participation in the III. Interschool Course of Psychoanalysis of the Analytical School of Psychoanalysis of Laço - LAEP "The Ego in the Circuit of the Libido: Narcissism" - with presentation of the paper "Narcissism, Castration and Sexual Choice" - Minas Gerais, Brazil.