The imaginative elaboration of body functioning and maternal holding: Winnicott and the formation of the psyche-soma

Alfredo Naffah Neto is a psychoanalyst and professor at PUC-SP (Catholic University of São Paulo) in the program of Post-Graduate Studies in Clinical Psychology. He has a Master's degree in philosophy from USP (São Paulo University) and a Doctorate degree in clinical psychology from PUC-SP. He works in clinical psychoanalysis in a private practice and, in the university, gives classes and guides students in achieving a Master's or Doctorate degree in clinical psychology. His research bends over psychopathology and psychoanalytical tools in Winnicott's conception (compared to other psychoanalytical perspectives) and over themes concerning psychoanalysis and music.