OUR MISSION
Leap begins with the mission of elevating and empowering psychoanalysis by demonstrating how this practice impacts people’s lives in every field, context, and situation. We emphasize elements deeply rooted in contemporary psychoanalysis history to promote critical thinking and intellectual debate and positively affect our ways of life.
OUR TEAM
Javier Bolaños and Florencia Bernthal Raz founded LEAP combining their education and psychoanalysis specialties to offer a more extensive and unique experience. Leap’s professionals have worked and researched extensively in science, AI, social studies, critical thinking, linguistics, mathematics, and topology. They envision novel ways of articulating knowledge to understand humankind and its interactions. Pursuing life from a psychoanalytic perspective derives productivity, and solutions and possibilities arise in the process.
The years of experience acquired by LEAP conclude in novel opportunities in forming and sustaining bonds between individuals.
Florencia Bernthal
Florencia Bernthal is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst with a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from UNC, Argentina, and a Psychoanalyst License from SUNY in NYS. Her natural inclination for psychoanalysis in the early days of her studies resulted in in-depth training in research and education over the years of practice as a clinician.
Florencia is the editor and translator of the academic and scientific journal Saltos and a member of the board of directors of Fundación Salto in Argentina.
In New York, Florencia holds a private practice welcoming teens and adults.
As the co-founder of the Lacanian Encounter Association of Psychoanalysis, she is currently working with creators, creatives, and screenwriters, helping them develop work that portrays truth and engages audiences.
She has experience in childhood education, where she developed the tools to engage children and provide a learning experience that would positively impact students and their families.
Javier Bolaños
Javier Bolaños is a psychoanalyst. He holds a Master's degree in Psychology from UNC, Argentina, and a Master's in Critical Thinking from ME, Mexico.
He is completing a Ph.D. in Critical Thinking with a transdisciplinary research project focused on the field he has dedicated the past 15 years to: the relationship between humans and machines (Artificial Intelligence).
He has extensive experience in teaching, research, supervision, and the transmission of Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as in forming research teams focused on Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence.
He is a faculty member of the Master's and Doctoral programs in Critical Thinking at 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico. He is a graduate and former professor at UNC, Argentina, and a former professional at a primary mental health clinic in Argentina.
He has produced numerous psychoanalytic and scientific publications and has organized international conferences and colloquia dedicated to teaching, transmitting, and disseminating his field of research.
He has been recognized by the National Directorate of Migration and the Legislature of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina, for his contributions to psychoanalysis and cultural heritage.
