Fernando Lana

Fernando Lana Moliner (Castellón, 1959) is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Madrid, as well as a pioneer in developing specialized programs for personality disorders. He has lived in Valencia, Tenerife, Madrid, and Barcelona. Head of the Mental Health Department at the Emilio Mira Center in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Hospital del Mar, Barcelona) and director of the Master’s Program in Severe Mental Illness at the University of Barcelona–IL3, his work has drawn the interest of Interviú magazine and the newspaper El País. His professional career can be consulted on the ResearchGate network.

In collaboration with other authors, he has published the short story collections Carner frente a doce espejos (2017) and Barnarracions: Historias de una estación y tres barrios (2018). These stories explore themes that later crystallized in the novel Rojo sobre negro: evil, cowardice, obsession, revenge, cancellation, as well as orphanhood, abandonment, violence against women, friendship, and the challenge that loving represents.