Rather, it is argued that there are certain variables that are typically present in individuals who use drugs, either legally or illegally, to reduce their levels of anxiety.

Lopez-Corvo is also a scholar in the psychoanalytic approach of Wilfred Bion, whom he considers has laid the foundations of future psychoanalysis.

In Wild thoughts in search of a thinker he explores the connections between Classical Psychoanalysis (mainly Freud, Klein and Winnicott) and Bion's novel theories.

It acknowledges the progressive epistemological evolution between the contributions of Freud, Klein and Bion, and emphasizes that psychoanalysis, like religion, represents different viewers rather than different beliefs.

These traumas are ubiquitous and occur before the individual has a developed mind capable of providing them with meaning and before the maternal reverie can intuitively protect them.