About Carlos
Carlos Correia Santos
A Black Amazonian man (born and living in Belém do Pará), with roots in Brazil’s Northeast (his family is from Recife), and dedicated for many years to the inclusion of people with disabilities, Carlos Correia Santos is an artist-therapist who has drawn on his life experience and humanistic references to build, over recent decades, a solid career grounded in diversity and in the defence of history and memory.
Clinical and therapeutic work
Carlos Correia Santos is a Clinical Psychoanalyst, trained by the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise do Maranhão and a member of the Conselho Brasileiro de Psicanálise Clínica (SBPMA 00278/2022 | CBPC 2022-223); an Educational Psychologist (ABPP/PA 2020006), member of the Conselho Federal de Educadores e Pedagogos (CFEP 22003960); a Music Therapist (CPMT-PA 036/19); and a Psicomaternista, trained in Infant Psychotherapy and Development (CEDEP-MG). He holds a postgraduate degree in Clinical Psychoanalysis (Faculdade de Tecnologia de Curitiba / FATEC-PR) and further training in Psychodrama (Pensar Cursos).
Mental Health First Aider trained by Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz. Trained in Psychological First Aid by Johns Hopkins University (USA), in Psychiatric Urgency by WR Educacional and in Psychiatric Emergency by Malone Educação (SP). Therapeutic Companion (A.T.) trained by Instituto Singular (Mayra Gaiato), with further training from ArtMed.
Specialist in the Inclusion of People with Disabilities, Autism, Mental Health, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Neuropsychology, the Psychoanalysis of Fairy Tales, and Music Education and Arts Teaching.
Trained in Neuropsychopedagogy, Neuroeducation, Educational Psychology, Williams Syndrome (Assessment and Intervention), theoretical and practical mediation of Autism in Adults, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Play Diagnosis, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Phonological Awareness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuroscientific Therapy, Cognitive Ergonomics, Body Language, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Assessment and Intervention), ADHD (Assessment and Intervention) and Psychomotricity for Children with Down Syndrome, with an extension course in Child Psychoanalysis.
Artistic work
Correia is a poet, short-story writer, novelist and playwright with more than 22 published books (most of them by Giostri Editora, São Paulo). His works have received national and international awards and have been staged by leading artists such as Stella Miranda and Gilberto Gawronski.
He has won the Funarte Playwriting Award three times (for Biblioteca Mabú, Julio Irá Voar and Ludique) and was twice selected for the national Seleção Brasil em Cena programme at CCBB Rio (for Perfídia Quase Perfeita and Um É Multidão). Productions of his work have been awarded the Caixa Cultural grant (Júlio Irá Voar).
He was selected for Sesc’s national Arte da Palavra project, touring his art-inclusion work through Balneário Camboriú, Caruaru, Campina Grande, Garanhuns and Aracaju. He recently joined the national artists taking part in Horizontes Culturais, a project of Brazil’s National Council of Justice, alongside Daniela Mercury, Paulo Betti and novelist Alcides Nogueira. The project brings art into prisons throughout Brazil.