María Cristina Piro

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Head of LIPPSI - UNLP

She is Professor of Psychopathology II (focused on child and adolescent population), the Head of the Research Laboratory in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology (LIPPSI) and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). She is Professor and has a Degree in Psychology (UNLP), specializing in Psychoanalytic Clinic with Adults (UNLP-Colegio de Psicólogos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) and in Clinical Psychology Oriented to Children and Adolescents (Colegio de Psicólogos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires). She is an ex-resident of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Sor María Ludovica Children's Hospital in La Plata, and a member of Antena Autismo La Plata (EOL).
She has coordinated three books that have been published by EDULP: "Cuerpo, época y presentaciones sintomáticas actuales" (2021), "El autismo: perspectivas teórico-clínicas y desafíos contemporáneos" (2017) and "Estructura y función del síntoma fóbico en la infancia" (2015). At UNLP, she is a Category III researcher of the Incentive Programme (Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic).
Previously, she has led projects on the care demand related to autism and its psychoanalytic clinical approach. She currently leads the R+D+i project "Cuerpo, época y presentaciones sintomáticas actuales: interrogantes y desafíos en psicopatología infanto-juvenil" (2017-2022).