Speaker: Ramon Arturo Mon

Title: "I will Return": The Eternal Myth - Phenomenology of Inmigration and the Inmigrant

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Dr. Mon is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst .

He is a Professor and coordinates the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Catholic University Santa Maria la Antigua of Panama (USMA).

Dr. Mon is a member of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society (PMS-Park Mexico), member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), the American

Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) and member with didactic duties of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Institute (ILAP).

He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), where he also received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees. He also holds a Master of Asian and African studies, obtained at El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX).

He served as President of the Panamanian Association of Psychologists from 1978-1980, President of the Panamanian Society of Psychotherapy (SOPAPSI) from 2002-2005 and Vice-president of the American Federation of Psychotherapy (FLAPSI) from 2007-2009.

Dr. Mon was a consultant with the "Human Trafficking Unit (Asian) and
Migration Issues in Latin America" for the Organization of American States (OAS). He has published several works on psychoanalysis, clinical psychology and psychotherapy; and on the issue of migration he has focused specially to the psychological problems associated with it: identity, adaptation and acculturation.

Dr. Mon maintains a private practice in Panama City, Panama.