By Henry Krutzen (Brazil)

Here is one of the first books on relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to be written in Portuguese. Published by Zagadoni Editions (São Paulo), it collects articles written during 2019, following the publication of Krutzen’s first book, Para uma Nova Definição do Espaço Clínico. Beginning with a clinical presentation of the concept of shame, something very absent from Brazilian clinical culture, the book then moves into a re-reading of Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion,” focusing on the idea of hope during psychotherapy. Then follows a long study on countertransference and self-disclosure, also unknown in Brazil debates. After commentaries on Edward Z. Tronick’s main book (still untranslated into Portuguese), the book closes with three articles: the first one on affect regulation, the second on jazz improvisation and clinical stance, and the last one on the theory of complexity.

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Henry A.L.J. Krutzen is a psychologist and psychoanalyst living in João Pessoa, in the northeastern part of Brazil. A Belgian, he studied psychology in Louvain University in the 1970s and worked for more than 20 years in psychosocial institutions in Belgium, while developing his private practice as a psychoanalyst. He published an “Index Référentiel du Séminaire de Jacques Lacan” in the 1990s before moving to Brazil in 2001, where he began to develop his thinking on a relational approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. This book is his second in Portuguese.

Henry Krutzen, Ph.D.
João Pessoa, Brazil
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