Marcelo Gomes, DMin, PhD

• English, Fluent
• Spanish, Basic Communication
• Portuguese, Fluent

• An Analysis of Religious Trauma from a Psychoanalytic Lens, Imágó Budapest, https://imagobudapest.hu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/4-Gomes.pdf, 2023
• Projective Identification, Empathy, and the Analytic Work, Imágo Budapest Journal, 2023/4, pp 101 - 113, http://imagobudapest.hu/images/lapszamok/2023_4/7-Gomes.pdf, 2023
• Liquid Modernity and Imagistic Production: Reflections on Social Media and Free Associations, Psychoanalytic Review Journal, 110, 3, September, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2023.110.3.287
• Planejamento da Educação Brasileira: uma análise histórico-filosófica da política educacional no Brasil contemporâneo, Editora dialética, 2021.
• Tensão pré e pós embarque. A vida emocional do homem offshore, Allprint Editora, São Paulo, 2006.

FORCOMING:

• Unrepresented States and the Need for a Transformational Psychoanalysis, Journal of Portuguese Psychoanalytic Association, Accepted and under peer review, 2026.
• Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Religion as a Source of Trauma, International Forum of Psychoanalysis Forum Journal, Taylor and Francis, recently approved for publication after peer review, 2026
• PTT-RT - Psychodynamic Transformational Therapy for Religious Trauma. Book in the phase of formatting and editing.

• Lecture, ECPP - European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies - Moscow Chapter, Russia, Interplay between Society Happiness: a psychoanalytic View, 02/2024
• Article presentation, New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. Conversation with authors event, article presented: Liquid Modernity and Imagistic Production: Reflections on Social Media and Free Associations, 09/2023
• Lecture, Clark University, MA, Psychoanalytic Conference - New England Institute of Psychoanalysis and sponsored by Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria. Presentation: Reality and (PH)antasy in postmodernity clinical work., 07/2023
• Lecture, ECPP - European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies - Moscow Chapter, Russia, Projective identification, empathy, and the analytic work., 02/2023
• Lecture, Department of Psychology, Anugraha Institute of Social Sciences, University of Madurai Kamaraji, Global challenges for mental health practices., 02/2023
• Psychoanalytic Seminar, Freud's Museum, London, UK, Lecture: Object Relations theory in four stages of clinical work., 10/2022
• International Psychoanalysis Conference, Orlando, Florida, Lecture: What needs to be returned to human (being)., 07/2022
• Psychology Conference, Porto, Portugal, Lecture: The Art of Living Well and Healthy., 04/2022

The Psychoanalytic-Transformational Therapy for Religious Trauma (PTT-RT). PTT-RT  is a psychodynamic, trauma-informed approach designed to address developmental and cumulative religious trauma that led to the internalization of persecutory divine objects, distortion of religious practices grounded in oppression and manipulation, and their impact on self-structure, identity formation, and affect regulation. PTT-RT  provides a structured process for treating religious trauma through phases of containment, deconstruction, reconstruction, and integration (resignification).

The method emphasizes the transformation of internalized persecutory God-objects, fragmentation and distortion of spiritual practices, the reconstruction of self-structure, and the re-symbolization of meaning through therapeutic containment, interpretation, and creative processes. Organized in four clinical phases—Safety and Containment, Deconstruction of the Religious Trauma Trinity, Rebuilding of Autonomy, and Integration (resignification of religious experience)—PTT-RT offers a coherent psychodynamic framework for restoring ego strength, emotional vitality, and the capacity for reparative spirituality or secular coherence following religious trauma.