Education & Community
Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez has an MA in Clinical Psychology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), an MA in Spanish Literature (University of British Columbia), and a PhD in Human Geography (Simon Fraser University). Her doctoral dissertation articulates a critique of how discourses of trauma and healing are used in public mental health institutions.
Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez actively participates in the psychoanalytic community through the Lacan Salon, a group that studies and promotes psychoanalysis in Vancouver. She co-founded the Salon in September 2007, served as its president from 2014-2016, and currently acts as its clinical director. As part of her involvement with the Lacan Salon, Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez has conducted clinical seminars since October 2015. She was also the president of the Western Canada Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Association from 2005-2007. She is involved in the academic community as an associate of the SFU Institute for the Humanities.

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links
psychoanalysis
Lacan Salon www.lacansalon.com
Lacan Toronto http://lacantoronto.ca/
Speaking of Lacan http://www.speakingoflacan.com/
Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups http://apwonline.org/
Lacan.com http://lacan.com/
17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos http://17edu.org/en/
Circulo Psicoanalítico Mexicano http://www.cpmac.net/
Ecole Lacanniene Psychoanalysis http://www.ecole-lacanienne.net/
Nueva Escuela Lacaniana http://www.nel-mexico.org/index.php
Lacan in Ireland http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/
APPI http://appipsychotherapy.com/
World Association of Psychoanalysis http://www.wapol.org/
Western Branch Psychoanalytic Society http://www.wbcps.org/
Freud Museum http://www.freud.org.uk/
Metonimia http://www.grupometonimia.org/
Convergencia http://www.convergenciafreudlacan.org/
Lacanian Compass http://www.lacaniancompass.com
Après Coup http://www.apres-coup.org/
education
SFU Institute of the Humanities http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/
SFU Geography Department http://www.sfu.ca/geography/graduate-programs
UBC Faculty of Arts http://www.arts.ubc.ca/
UBC French Hispanic and Italian Studies http://www.fhis.ubc.ca/
UNAM https://www.unam.mx/
UNAM Psychology http://www.psicologia.unam.mx/site2/
UNAM Philosophy http://www.filos.unam.mx/
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
Academia https://www.academia.edu/about
community
SFU Woodwards http://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards.html
Vancouver Coastal Health http://www.vch.ca/locations-and-services/find-health-services/?program_id=78
Canadian Association Suicide Prevention http://www.casp-acps.ca/
BC Clinical Counsellors Association http://bc-counsellors.org/