Maria Elisa Molina is a clinical psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a doctor in Psychology from the same university and a family therapist from the Institute of Family Therapy in Santiago. She is currently a teaching researcher at the Couples Therapy Research Unit, director of the Family and Couples Unit of the SPI Integral Psychology Service of the Faculty of Psychology and Coordinator of the clinical area of ​​the faculty.

Her research areas have focused on dialogical processes as historical, emergent and culturally situated phenomena. Among which are relational processes of couples, family and therapeutics. It has focused on understanding the human experience as manifestations of human development and from there its conversational, social and temporal quality.

 

Presentations (selected)

31st International Congress of Psychology Symposium: The Yokohama manifesto: Values ​​in Action, Development over life, Presentation: Variety of love, Multiverses in a localism aesthetic. And Paper: The Semiotic Process of Weness in Couple therapy. Yokohama July 23-29, 2016.

12th Chilean Congress of Research in Psychotherapy. 14th Chilean Congress of Psychotherapy, Panel presentation: Temporality and meaning in couple conflict. Decoupling difficulties. August 26 – 28, 2016. Reñaca, Chile.

LXX Annual Conference of Psychiatry Sonepsyn Symposium GDT Psychotherapy: Between Desire and Care: Resolution of Entrapments in Couples who consult for Difficulties in Passionate Love. Dr. Luis Tapia-Villanueva, Ps. Maria Elisa Molina. June 11-13, 2015. Santiago

46th Annual International Meeting – Society for Psychotherapy Research Symposium presentations: Conjoint relational drawing process (CRDP) in couples as a diagnosis of interactional patterns and; Microgenesis and ontogenesis of temporalities of couple therapeutic system. June 24 – 27, 2015 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

45th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR. Symposium presentation: From Temporality and Abductive Inference in Couple Therapy and Research M.E. Molina and L. Tapia. Copenhagen, Denmark, Jun, 25, 2014

44th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR. Symposium presentation: Relational patterns and meaning attributions in the triadic couple therapeutic system through relational drawing video analysis (RDVA) methodology. L. Tapia and M.E. Molina Brisbane, Australia, July 10-13, 2013

X Latin American Congress of Research in Psychotherapy – SPR Symposium presentation: Semiotic Mediation: Triadic Model applied to the study of the Couple Therapeutic Process. Molina M.E. Tapia L. Buenos Aires 25 and 26, October, 2012

 

Publications

Fossa P., Molina M.E., De la Puerta S., Barr M., & Tapia-Villanueva L. (2916). What Do We Do When We Discuss? A Micro-genetic Analysis of Couples’ Conflict. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.

Fossa P & Molina M.E. (2017). El debilitamiento del vínculo terapéutico: Un estudio de micro-proceso en psicoterapia. Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica 26(1)31-46

Molina, M.E.; Tapia-Villanueva, L. & Fossa, P.  (2017). Temporality as the co-construction of couple relationships: Regulation of the experience of time. Culture & Psychology 0(0) 1-17. DOI: 10.1177/1354067X17737719

Molina M. E.; Tapia-Villanueva, L.; Fossa P.; Pereira X.; Aspillaga M.C; De la Puerta, S. A (2019). Methodological Approach to Couple’s Therapy Using A Conjoint Relational Drawing Process for the Description of and Intervention with Relational Patterns and Meaning Attributions. Journal of Family Therapy. 41(4):582-598 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12241

Molina, M.E. (2020). Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course. Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09570-z

Fossa, P; Molina M. E.; De La Puerta, S. & Barr, M. (2020). Discursive and non-discursive symbolization during couple’s conflict. Integrative, Psychological & Behavioral Science.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09558-9

Fossa, P., Cortés, C., Molina, M. E., Barros, M., Muñoz C., Sprovera, I., Tapia, J. (2021). Microgenetic analysis of thought trajectories: A mixed design. Integrative, Psychological & Behavioral Science.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09633-9

Molina, M.E; Cornejo, C., Marsico, G., & Valsiner, J. Eds (2022). Intimacy: The Shared part of me. Volume in the series: Annals of Cultural Psychology. Information age Publishing

Molina, M.E; Cornejo, C., Marsico, G., & Valsiner, (2022). Introduction; Intimacy from a cultural-psychological standpoint. In, M.E. Molina; C. Cornejo, G. Marsico, & J. Valsiner, Eds. Intimacy: The Shared part of me. Series: Annals of Cultural Psychology. Information age Publishing

Molina, M.E; Cornejo, C., Marsico, G., & Valsiner, (2022). Conclusions: Intimacy as Unveiling Issues in Dichotomous Thinking. In, M.E. Molina; C. Cornejo, G. Marsico, & J. Valsiner, Eds. Intimacy: The Shared part of me. Series: Annals of Cultural Psychology. Information age Publishing.

Molina, M.E; Fossa, P., Hojman V. (2022). Family therapy: Clinical supervision as a sociocultural generative practice. In J. Zumbach et al. (eds.) International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching. Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_46-1

Fossa P., Molina M.E., De la Puerta S., Barr , M., & Tapia-Villanueva L.  (2016) What Do We Do When We Discuss? A Micro-genetic Analysis of Couples’ Conflict. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.

Tapia-Villanueva L. & Molina M.E. (2016) Variety of love: Multiverses in a localism aesthetic. En (Eds. J. Valsiner; G. Marsico; N. Chaudhary. T. Sato; V. Dazzani) Psychology as a science of human being: The Yokohama manifesto. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, Vol 13. 165-189 Springer International Publishing Switzerland DOI 10.1007/978-3-21094-0_1

Molina, M.E, Del Rio M.T, y Tapia L. (2015) El diálogo en la psicoterapia: Protocolo para un análisis de micro-proceso.  Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica, 24(2) 121-132

Tapia-Villanueva L. & Molina M.E. (2014) Primera entrevista en terapia de pareja: co-construcción de un encuentro situado. Revista  Chilena  Neuro-Psquiatría, 52(1)42-52

Tapia-Villanueva, L., Molina, M.E., Aspillaga, C., Cruzat, C., Pereira, X., Poulsen, G., Sotomayor, P. & Armijo, I (2014). Factors Preventing Gridlock in Couples’ Relationships based on the Discourse of Highly Adjusted Couples and Couples Therapists. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.35(4)462-478

Molina, Ben-Dov, Diez, Farrán, Rapaport y Tomicic. (2013) Vínculo Terapéutico: Aproximación desde el diálogo y la co-construcción de significados. Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica 22(1) 15-21

Molina, M.E. (2012) Mothers Dealing With Child Abuse: Dynamics of Psychological Processing, in A S. Bastos, J. Valsiner, K. Uriko (Eds.) Cultural dynamics of women’s lives. (Advances in cultural psychology) Part II Agepublishing libro

Simão, L., Molina, M. E., & Del Río, M.T. (2011). Aproximação, distanciamento e negociação de sentido em relações eu – outro no diálogo psicoterapêutico, em: P. S. de Oliveira e M. I. da S. Leme (Orgs.) Proximidade e Distanciamento: Olhares da Psicologia. São Paulo: Casa do Psicólogo Editora. 57-74