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Publications &
Reviews

Books
Barahona, R. (2024) Negative Hallucination in Wilfred Bion's Theory of Transformations. On Finding One's Ghost. London: Routledge.
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​Original Articles

Barahona, R. (2024) Initiating analysis. Psychoanal. Q. 93(4).

 

Barahona, R. (2023) Transformaciones en O y en K: Apuntes sobre la escucha psicoanalítica, la dirección y el fin de la interpretación en el campo. Revista Psicoanálisis, 35 (1). Asociación Psicoanalítica Colombiana. 

 

Barahona, R. (2020). Living the Non-Dream: An Examination of the Links Between Dreaming, Enactment, and Transformations in hallucinosis. Psychoanal Q., 89(4):689-714.

 

Barahona, R. (2019). Unlaid Ghosts: A Discussion of Maria Grazia Oldoini's “Abusive Relations and Traumatic Development: Marginal Notes on a Clinical Case”. Psychoanal Q., 88(2):277-295.

 

Barahona, R. (2010) Shared unconscious fantasy: When resistance is an artifact of the analytic interaction (La fantasía inconciente compartida: cuando la resistencia aparece como artefacto de la interacción analítica). Giros. Asociación de Psicoanálisis Crítico Social. San Jose, Costa Rica.

 

Barahona, R. (2008) The narration of a nightmare as enactment of the original traumatic scene (La narración de una pesadilla como re-actuación del scenario traumático original). Giros (8). Asociación de Psicoanálisis Crático Social. San José, Costa Rica. 

 

Barahona, R. (2004) Conflict and Deficit in Modern Psychoanalysis. Modern

Psychoanalysis, 29 (2): 271-294.

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Book Chapters

 

Barahona, R. (2024) Field theory. In The Third Edition of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis. Edited by Glenn Gabbard, Bonnie Litowitz, and Paul Williams. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

 

Barahona, R. (2022) The Hallucinated Field. In The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro. Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application. Edited by Howard B. Levine. New York, London: Routledge.

 

Barahona, R. & Carrillo, E. (2009) Costa Rica: Attitudes towards War, Peace, and Torture in Costa Rica. State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of the Ordinary People.  Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger series.

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Book Review Essays

 

Barahona, R. (2023). Not-so-tristes tropiques: Latin american psychoanalysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71(5), 989-1012.

 

Book Reviews 

 

Barahona, R. (2022) Experiencias Psicoanalíticas en la Actualidad Sociocultural: Como nos Cambia un Mundo Que Cambia (Psychoanalytic Experiences in the Sociocultural Present: How We Are Changed by a World That Changes) By Marcelo Viñar. Buenos Aires: Centro de Publicaciones Educativas y Materiales Didáctico, 2018. 208 pp. Journal of the American Psychoanlaytic Association. 70 (4): 789-793.

 

Barahona, R. (2021). Artesanías Psicoanalíticas (Psychoanalytic Craftwork). Edited by Willy Baranger, Raquel Zak de Goldstein, and Nestor Goldstein. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Kargieman, 2014. 462. Pp. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 69 (3): 647-654.


 

Barahona, R. (2020). Relational Horizons: Mediterranean Voices Bring Passion and Reason to Relational Psychoanalysis: Edited by Alejandro Avila, New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018. 221 pp. Psychoanal Q., 89(3):633-645.


 

Barahona, R. (2019) Psicoanalizando (Psychoanalyzing). Paz Rafael, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Biebel, 2017, 226 pp. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 67 (2): 411-416.

 

Barahona, R. (2018). Una visión binocular: Psicoanálisis y filosofía (A Binocular Vision: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy). Edited by Bárbara Bettocchi and Raúl Fatule. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014, 265 pp. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 66(2):386-392.

 

Barahona, R. (2018). Psychoanalytic Technique: Contributions from Ego Psychology (Técnica Psicoanalítica: Aportaciones de la Psicología del Yo): By Cecilio Paniagua. Madrid: Editorial Tébar Flores, 2014. 426 pp. Psychoanal Q., 87(2):369-379.

 

Barahona, R. (2017). Comunicación en sesión: Acerca de los aportes de David Liberman al psicoanálisis (Communication in Session: David Liberman's Contributions to Psychoanalysis). By Eduardo Issaharoff and Benzión Winograd. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Biebel, 2016, 283 pp. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65(5):930-936.

 

Barahona, R. (2016) Las teorías sexuales en psicoanálisis: Qué permanence de ellas en la práctica actual? (Sexual theories in psychoanalysis: What remains of them in today’s practice?). By Silvia Bleichmar. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2014. 624 pp. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 64 (5):1065-1069.

 

Barahona, R. (2015) Ciencia mestiza: Hermenéutica analógica y psicoanálisis (Mestizo Science: Analogical Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis). By Juan Tubert- Oklander and Mauricio Beuchot Puente. Mexico City: Editorial Torres Asociados, 2008, 218 pp. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63 (2): 351-357.

 

Barahona, R. (2012) Couples in Conflict, Conflict in Couples: A Psychodynamic Constructivist Treatment Manual (Parejas en conflicto, conflictos en parejas: Manual psicodinámico constructivista para su tratamiento). By Félix Velasco-Alva. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2012. 60 (6): 1350-1356.

 

Barahona, R. (2008) Perversions. Eds. Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing. Modern Psychoanalysis. 33 (1).

 

Barahona, R. (2006) Key ideas for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious. By André Green. Modern Psychoanalysis.31(1).

 

New Paper Op Eds

 

Barahona, R. (2009) Postmodern Sagot (Sagot Posmoderno). Op. Ed. La Nación newspaper, San José, Costa Rica. 5/23/09.

 

Soldz, S. & Barahona, R. (2007) Psychologists, Guantanamo, and Torture. (Psicólogos, Guantanamo, y Tortura). Op. Ed. La Nación newspaper, San José Costa Rica. 4/8/07. 

 

Barahona, R. (2005) Right, Left, and The Caribbean (Derecha, Izquierda, y Caribe). Op. Ed, La Nación newspaper, San José, Costa Rica. 5/20/05.

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