Dr. Jorge Luis Maldonado M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1634 Lockhill Selma Rd San Antonio TX, 78213About
Dr. Jorge Maldonado is a psychiatrist practicing in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Maldonado is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Maldonado diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Maldonado may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Maldonado treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ Francisco Marroquin, Fac De Med, Guatemala 1986
Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Facultad De Medicina 1986
Universidad Mariano G·lvez de Guatemala Facultad de Ciencias MÈdicas y de la Salud 1986
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Psychosomatic Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recrimination in the analytic situation. A hypothesis about its influence on psychoanalytical groups.
- Obstacles facing the psychoanalyst when interpreting narcissistic pathologies: characteristics of the authoritarian patient.
- A disturbance of interpreting, of symbolisation and of curiosity in the analyst-analysand relationship (the patient without insight).
- Vicissitudes in adult life resulting from traumatic experiences in adolescence.
- What is your theory of unconscious processes? What are other theories that you would contrast with your conceptualization? Response by Jorge Luis Maldonado.
- A mismatch of meaning and intentionality between analyst and analysand.
- Reflections on trauma, symbolization and psychic pain in a case of neurosis and a case of psychosis.
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