What Does Language Have that Allows to Cure and Treat in the Human? An Interview from Spain to the Colombian Psychoanalyst Jairo Báez

Abstract

In one of his first experiences in the field of scientific journalism, Carlos Cortés Yagüe, journalist trained at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, delves into the difficult subject of psychosis and madness. In his research he finds the work done by Jairo Báez and his research group, which has been published in several articles and different numbers of our Magazine. These, among others, were the ones that provoked the following interview, which, having knowledge of it, we thought it was interesting to leave it reflected in our pages, with the prior permission of its protagonists. In a succinct manner and in a clear intention to respond to the journalist's concerns, the researcher shows in a simple way what has kept him working in his long research career: What is in the language, which allows a cure and treatment in the human?