Main area of expertise: Phenomenological psychopathology and psychiatry, especially of drug addiction and related psychopathologies including

1. the development of a phenomenologically-based therapeutics, which considers the individual as a whole;
2. the formation of new generations of psychopathologists, psychologists and psychiatrists (through theoretical and practical teaching);
3. the development of a phenomenological psychopatho-sociology of drug abusers;
4. the development of strategies for social reinsertion of vulnerable populations in Brazil (aiming at reduction of criminality);
5.  chief-editior of the journal “Psicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea”;
6. writing and publishing papers and books on the subject