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Fernanda Sofio, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with 20+ years of experience. She is an award-winning author and an instructor of Brazilian psychoanalysis at the Blanton-Peale Institute of Psychoanalysis in NY.
Dr. Sofio is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has offices in Princeton, NJ, and Manhattan, NY, and may be reached at fernanda.sofio@gmail.com.
This author and clinical portfolio was created to compile publications and contact information in the same website.
Authored Books
Authored Books
Literacura delves into the intrinsic relationship between psychoanalysis and literature and highlights how literary fiction shapes psychoanalytic concepts. It draws largely from Freud and Herrmann's work, as well as the author's own clinical practice. It was awarded 3rd place by the Brazilian Association of University Presses and short-listed for the prestigious Jabuti Prize.
Available at: Editora Unifesp.
Psicanálise na UTI describes the author's experience as an analyst in ICUs, exploring highly complex clinical scenarios at the intersection between life, death, and interpretation.
Available at: Psychoanalysis in the ICU
Edited Books
Edited Books
Anotando a China was published posthumously, almost 15 years after Herrmann's death. It blends psychoanalytic-literary texts with photographs from his trip to Japan and China and includes Sofio's introduction about how the text-and-photographs work together to create a single case study.
Available at: Editora Unifesp.
Interpretação e Cura compiles the works presented at the V Psychoanalytic Meeting on Multiple Fields Theory and explores the relationship between interpretation and cure, both essential components of the therapeutic function.
Available at: Interpretation and Cure
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Scholarly contributions largely about art and psychoanalysis, clinical practice, and current events.
Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Fates of Martin and Valentina. And Joana.
Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, 28, 290-292 (2023)
"Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Fates of Martin, Valentina. And Joana." examines the unforeseen consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, focusing on the case of Joana and her frozen embryos. The author explores how the ruling creates new dilemmas regarding the right to life and the legality of in vitro fertilization procedures.
Artistic and Psychoanalytic Processes: Morgan, Warhol, Herrmann, and Freud
Psicologia USP, 30, 1-12 (2019)
The article investigates whether artistic processes can be analogous to psychoanalytic interpretation. It uses Barbara Morgan's dance photographs, appropriated by Andy Warhol, as a unique "case study" to discuss their similarities with the psychoanalytic interpretive process, highlighting the discipline's relevance to the arts.
Corpo e Arte São o Mesmo: Dança dos Estados Unidos no Século XX
Ide, 40(64), 103-116 (2017)
The article defines dance as a tripod of visual forms, rhythmic transitions, and interpretation of music/silence. It discusses the poetics of choreographers Martha Graham, Lucinda Childs, and Trisha Brown, viewing dance as a "post-medium" and drawing parallels between psychoanalytic and artistic work.
Literacura da Histeria: a Questão da Forma Literária das Psicanálises
Jornal de Psicanálise, 48(89), 93-102 (2015)
The article presents two clinical vignettes of classical hysterical patients in distinct literary forms, questioning why analysts do not more spontaneously embrace the literary specificity of their practice. It suggests that clinical narrative can evolve into literary fiction.
Mateus: Destino e Clínica Extensa
Trieb, XIII(2), (2014)
The article explores meanings related to social inclusion and to Matthew’s world, for himself and for contemporary society. Mathew was “adopted” by the woman his mother works for, a sort of half-adoption. He continues to live with his biological mother in a shack in a São Paulo favela. In his new school, he is doubly (or triply) exceptional: because of his level of IQ, because the other children come from middle class families and because he is “adoptive”. This half adoption marks the destiny of this patient, in the psychoanalytic sense of the term.
Um Paciente que São Dois: Clínica Extensa no Consultório
Trieb, X(1-2), (2011)
The analysand is a pair of brothers—one patient who is two people. This came to be because continuing the analysis of Tiago, a six-year-old, required the presence of his younger brother, turning it into an analysis of the pair, due to a strong relationship of dependence. Based on the experience with Tiago and Marco, it can be observed that the analytic frame is a technical extension of the clinical setting—it is not fixed or unchangeable, nor must the analyst strictly adhere to a classical notion of frame or structure.
"Literacura"? Psicanálise como Forma Literária
Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, 44(4), 144-153 (2010)
This article communicates some interpretive findings I arrived at while writing my doctoral dissertation, particulary with regard to the ideas of literary fiction and a psychaoanlytic cure. The term "literacure" was borrowed from Herrmann (2002: 112), as I consider it condenses the idea that Psychoanalysis, understood as an interpretive method, has literary fiction as its analogous reign and assumes literary form.
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O Escorpião e a Tartaruga: o Conceito de Erro Necessário Levado às Últimas Consequências
Percurso, 42, 101-106 (2009)
This article explores the epistemology of Psychoanalysis through Fabio Herrmann's short story "The Scorpion and the Tortoise". It emphasizes that new knowledge production in psychoanalysis focuses on the form of discovery, rather than just the result, strategically using "necessary error" as a key concept.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Book reviews largely on literary art and psychoanalysis, clinical practice, and current events.
A Ficção Filosófica de Benjamin Ogden
Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, 54(2), 275-278 (2020)
Description: A review of Benjamin Ogden's "Beyond psychoanalytic literary criticism: between literature and mind." The author analyzes the book's first chapter as "philosophical fiction," discussing the intricate relationship between literature and psychoanalysis and the paradox of converging fields.
Pandemia: de Londres em 1665 às Américas em 2020
Percurso, 64,133-138 (2020)
Description: A review connecting Daniel Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" (1665 London plague) with the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 Americas). The author analyzes striking similarities in human reactions and social structures across centuries, exploring themes like denial, social control, and the evolving perception of reality.
Pontes, Arte-Vida: Poemas de Lucila de Jesus
Ide, 40(66), 199-204 (2018)
Description: A poetic review of Lucila de Jesus's poetry collection "Ponte." This piece explores how Lucila's poems create "bridges" from her life and psychoanalytic journey, transforming personal reality into fiction. It highlights the power of fiction to universalize individual stories and art as a catalyst for interpretive thought.
Ficções Brevíssimas, Metáforas de Duplicação e o Processo Criativo
Percurso, 56-57, 226-230 (2016)
Description: A review of Renato Tardivo's "Girassol voltado para a terra," this text explores literary creation, the transformation of reality into fiction, and the writer's self-duplication. It analyzes micro-fictions from a psychoanalytic perspective, delving into the concepts of real, reality, and fiction.
A Teoria dos Campos Se Transforma, Leda Herrmann Participa
Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, 50(2), 179-184 (2016)
Description: This review discusses Fabio Herrmann's posthumous book, which compiles four introductory courses and a preamble on Field Theory. It highlights Herrmann's rigorous method, which frees psychoanalysts from repetition and encourages them to create their own proto-theories.
Inverviews
Inverviews
Um Ensino da Psicanálise Concordante Com Seu Método Investigativo
Jornal de Psicanálise, 55(103), 59-72 (2022)
Description: This article, authored by Marilsa Taffarel and featuring an interview with Fernanda Sofio, discusses the psychoanalyst's training. It dialogues ideas from Fabio Herrmann with those of Jacques Lacan and his disciples, analyzing the critical perspective on psychoanalytic teaching and Herrmann's vision for an ideal institutional transmission.
Blog Entries
Blog Entries
Reflections on Mass Shootings
International Psychoanalytical Association Blog, 2022
This article, co-authored by Fernanda Sofio, reflects on the psychology of mass shooters. It re-contextualizes Fabio Herrmann's 1980s ideas on the "attack regime" to understand contemporary events, discussing the transformation of helplessness into omnipotence through destructive acts and the "psychosis of action".
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