Guillermo de la Parra ISSPD Congress 2023

Guillermo de la Parra

Guillermo de la Parra, M.D., Ph.D . is full professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Dr de la Parra received his Ph.D. from the Ulm University, Germany. He has developed three interest areas: First, he has been interested in offering therapeutic services to socioeconomically vulnerable patients. For this reason he has founded psychotherapy units in public institutions and the University Outpatient Clinic, as a space for care, research, and teaching. Second, as former president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research, he has been interested in bridging the gap between cultures and also between research and clinical practice, applying and assessing evidence based models in Psychotherapy Units. Thirth, his research in the frame of the Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality (MIDAP), has been devoted to the depressive patient, his/her personality style, and personality structure in its relation to depression.