Analía Forti has a degree in Family Sciences, a Psychological Consultant with a Logotherapeutic Approach, a Social Psychologist and a Family Mediator. She is a specialist in Couples, Family and Upbringing, Essayist, Writer, Lecturer and Researcher on Family issues.
Analia, this new book already communicates something to us from its cover art, was it thought of as such for something in particular?
It is true, the cover is the reader’s first contact with the author and this image is communicating something. It was a long process that began in the first[1]After talks with my photographer Pablo Ferraudi, who accurately interpreted what I wanted to communicate with the images and throughout the photo session we searched together with him and with all my team (makeup, press, wardrobe) to find the body language that communicated the message what I wanted to convey. The process culminates in meetings with my editor and the team from the publishing house Hojas del Sur (editor, design, art) with whom we finally chose this image for the cover as representative of the way in which we so often slant our gaze on certain situations and circumstances of life and we look at them from a single perspective. That hand that hides a part of the face and an eye, reveals that bias that we sometimes make of life situations and at the same time invites us to reflect by providing that other introspective look at what happens to us. If you observe you will see that the look is deep, direct, sharp and proposes to challenge one’s own biases to deepen the exercise of self-knowledge and a reflective attitude.
What does the reader find when opening that cover of REFLECTIONS FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE?
It is opening up to the possibility of an encounter with the author’s reflections and a reunion with himself as a person and his circumstances. The reader meets[1]inflections and messages for everyday life and with the opportunity to review how you are deliberating on various issues, circumstances, situations and experiences of your day to day in various areas (love, friendship, loss, grief, infidelity, regrets, family crises, illness , relationships with children, work situations, betrayals, achievements, failures and so on.[1]these circumstances that we have to go through throughout our existence). The reader finds himself with the possibility of thinking and thinking, of revising his thoughts on those questions and rethinking them and rethinking himself in relation to those circumstances and perhaps, appeal to new deliberations and conclusions about that, that allow him to transform his life. and enhance their personal development.
The book has a luxurious prologue by the renowned journalist, historian and writer Daniel Balmaceda, why did you choose it?
The truth is that when I did my thesis at the Austral University, I used his work a lot as a bibliographical source in many historical aspects and I discovered in it deep roots that led me to reflect on the origin of many customs that were installed in families. through time. It was also interesting for me that a historian could preface a book that proposes to reflect, because each individual is singular, unique, diverse and has a historicity from which he will make his reflections based on his life experiences. Daniel is, in addition to being a prestigious professional, a loving person and he accepted the proposal with great generosity. Precisely in the prologue, he refers to introspection, as that ability we have to review ourselves inward, discover ourselves, know ourselves and recognize ourselves, understand ourselves and value ourselves, which is the clear synthesis of the proposal of this book.
In the first pages you speak as an author, of a book to turn to at certain moments of life as a refuge from helplessness and strength in the face of adversity. PEOPLE TO PEOPLE REFLECTIONS Is that refuge?
Undoubtedly, it aspires to be that refuge, that meeting space that from the word houses, contains, sustains, accompanies, strengthens and empowers in difficult circumstances. When I write I have a clear objective, a goal, I advance in each word with the conviction and certainty of what I want to convey and communicate. The message is clear to me and words are the instrument through which I seek the most effective way to communicate it, but it is always the reader who has the final word and in this case it will be the one who can say if he has felt accommodated, accompanied, understood, strengthened and sustained by each reflection. If so, my wish will have been fulfilled that each page can be the one that houses the pain, the sadness, the despair, the faith and that in this way the paper becomes light that illuminates through the words. I wish it so.
If you had to say what reading this book brings, what would you say?
It provides the possibility of opening a channel to redefine experiences and rethink meanings. It invites you to exercise reflection and it gives you the possibility of creating renewed views about yourself and others, about the situations that life presents you and about your responsibility in leading your life in all circumstances.
Analia, REFLECTIONS FROM PERSON TO PERSON is your second book. The first was POWER OVER YOUR LIFE, which was presented at the 2018 Book Fair with a luxurious prologue also by the journalist Fanny Mandelbaum and I am aware that it is out of print. Will there be a new edition of POWER OVER YOUR LIFE?
There will be a new edition of POWER OVER YOUR LIFE. That book has given me enormous rewards since it was published in 2018, because readers have left me messages thanking me and telling me how it had helped them in different situations in their lives and that they have it as a book. of permanent consultation to which they turn whenever they need guidance to recover personal power. Having a prologue by a journalist like Fanny Mandelbaum has been, as you say, a luxury and also an honor because I admire her professional work and she is undoubtedly a woman who has known how to have power over her life.
What expectations do you have as the author of REFLECTIONS FROM PERSON TO PERSON?
My expectation always has to do with the possibility of providing help through the word and that each page becomes a bridge that brings the reader closer to what they need at that moment, be it relief, company, identification, a new look at some issue. , a rethinking of their circumstances, hope, strength, a meaning. Writing is for me one more channel from which to display the vocation of help and each published book is the possibility of concretizing that help through reading. In some way, each book is a way to expand help outside of the consulting room and reach more people through the written word.
Why “Reflections” and why “From Person to Person”?
Because we come from a very difficult time, of much adversity, loss, pain and we need to stop to think about what we live, think of ourselves in relation to others and those others as similar in a time in which we discover that from the individual Social doesn’t work. It is a time to reflect on a new way of living as humans in a changing world that confronts us with the same emotional circumstances but to which we must respond in new ways and with different attitudes. From person to person because it is necessary to meet again after a long time of estrangement and because reflecting with those others who are our neighbors allows us to look at each other again, to feel ourselves, to empathize and to think that a world without person-to-person encounters and without the ability to reflect on our circumstances, it is a world devoid of meaning that leaves us alone, isolated, helpless and out of touch with ourselves.
That word of help is also conveyed in your daily work in the office and in your role as a disseminator through the media for many years. How does it differ from help from the written word?
Undoubtedly in speed, the speed of the television or radio media is dizzying and does not allow a deep and thoughtful development of the issues but rather specific ideas that have to be clear and concrete. On the other hand, the moment passes and the idea is lost without being able to recover it. The word written on the pages of a book allows you to read and reread, go over the idea again and again, reflect on it, question it, give it a new meaning. It allows you to mark, point out, make annotations, carry out personal and introspective work on what you have read and thus the book becomes a facilitator of personal development. Office care is a different process because it involves accompanying the person who consults through their own process of self-knowledge to facilitate their personal development and thus be able to resolve the crises that are going through at that time or go through the situation that motivates them with new resources. the query. In the office, a process of help facilitated by the professional is carried out, not only from the word but also from listening, while in the book there is an exercise by the reader of appropriating the written word in what he feels is helpful. After 16 years of professional practice in the office, today I can tell you that the book complements the help process and sometimes motivates you to start it because it works as a trigger for awareness through the written word.
What are your projects for this 2022?
In principle, to be presenting “Reflections from Person to Person” at the 2022 Book Fair in Buenos Aires, to meet the readers there, which is always a special and magical moment, and to continue with the writing of the third book, which is already in an advanced process and with which I am very committed in its writing because it is a book that will be of great help to many people who are going through difficult life situations. I will continue as always with the attention in my office, the podcasts and of course the Parenting School that provides training and guidance to parents to accompany their children in the different stages of their development. The new projects I am working on are a play I am writing about destructive games in affective relationships and a cycle of conferences on couples, love and family in times of misunderstanding. Rethinking ourselves from the individual and from the bonds is the objective of these talks after this difficult time that we have gone through as humanity.
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