Victims of Envy

Born and raised in Santiago, Chile. She attended the University of California, Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received a Masters in Psychology in 1966, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1974. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles and in private practice. She also works as an artist at a studio in Venice, California. In addition to psychoanalytic work as clinician and teacher, Safán-Gerard has written about and is engaged in creativity and the arts, having translated the music of Boulez, Shostakovich, Piazzolla, Brockman, and Kraft into paintings. Her book Chaos and Control: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds was published by Routledge in 2018.