A native of Mexico City, Ricardo Ainslie uses books, documentary films, and photographic exhibits to capture and depict subjects of social and cultural interest. He is certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology and in private practice in Austin, Texas. He holds the M.K. Hage Centennial Professorship in Education at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching in the Educational Psychology Department. He is also the Director of Research and Education for AMPATH Mexico at Dell Medical School. He is founding member and past president of Austin Psychoanalytic and was Adjunct Faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston from 1994 to 2011. He is a member of the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology; Pychoanalysis, Culture, and Society; and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His awards include receiving the Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and the Rockefeller Foundation Residency in Bellagio (2010), and being a Fulbright Scholar at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria (2022).
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Domash, L. (2014). Creating therapeutic “space”: How architecture and design can inform psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11(2), 94–111.
Evered, E. (2016). The role of the urban landscape in restoring mental health in Sheffield, UK: Service user perspectives. Landscape Research, 41(6), 678–694.
Grigoriadou, E. T. (2021). The urban balcony as the new public space for well-being in times of social distancing. Cities & Health, 5(sup1): S208–S211.
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