Art as a Second Door by Olga Montero Rose
For Olga Montero Rose , literature has been a second door. A psychoanalyst by trade, she published Cortejo at the age of 57. Since then, her life has been divided between her consulting room and writing, where she seeks to understand others and narrate the soul.
She always had the urge to write , but life, patients, conferences, and parenting kept putting that need off. Until, finally, she decided. The creative process , for her, is very much like psychoanalysis : it begins with an idea, but soon something unexpected emerges that surprises even the author.
Her writing delves into emotions and seeks to illuminate what seems buried. In Cortejo (2022) and Culpa (2025), both published by Planeta, the protagonist Simona, a psychoanalyst like her author, explores this tension between what is experienced and what is told.
Cortejo explores emotional ties, while Guilt , her most recent novel, examines from a psychoanalytic perspective how this feeling is installed in the cultural mandates that weigh on women.
The third installment of the trilogy , which he is already working on, returns to that universe to explore the passage of time and the loss of youth.
In parallel, Olga has published The Gender Rebellion (2022), an essay on sexual diversity . It reflects the same concern that runs throughout her work: communicating without secrecy, speaking about humanity in accessible language.
That clarity has even led her to social media , where she shares short capsules on affection and mental health.
He hesitated at first, because of what it meant to expose himself publicly in addition to the neutrality required by psychoanalysis , until he understood that everything a patient brings, even what they have seen in their Instagram capsules, becomes material for analysis.
Since then, this platform has also been a space where their trades interact.
For her, each book is a different opportunity. What began as a postponed wish eventually became a second career that now thrives alongside her clinical practice .
For Olga Montero Rose , psychoanalysis and literature are not separate territories, but threads of the same fabric. From this intersection, a writing in motion is born, convinced that art reaches where nothing else can. And with the certainty that what pulsates within doesn't deserve to be left untouched.
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