Chilean and trained in Belgium origin, it is a neuropsychiatrist, a child psychiatrist and family therapist established in Spain for several years. He taught in systemic family therapy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and guest lecturer at several Spanish and Chilean universities. Founder and director of EXIL Psicosocial for exiles and victims of violence and torture in Belgium and Spain Medical Center and the IFIV (Institute for Training and Research on Violence, is the author of The Invisible pain of childhood: an ecosystem reading . (1989) and social Ecology child abuse: prevention and repair (2000).