Pioneers of Psychoanalysis in South America

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Shortly before and during World War II many European psychoanalysts found refuge in South America, concentrated in Buenos Aires. Here, together with local professionals, they created a strong, creative and productive psychoanalytic movement that in turngave birth to theoretical and clinical contributions that transformed psychoanalysis, psychology, medicine and culture in South America.

The Pioneers of Psychoanalysis in South America is a collection of those pioneers papers, and introduces the reader to a body of ideas and advancements many of which have had limited and piecemeal exposure within the psychoanalytic community in the rest of the world until now. The Editors Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski and Alberto Pieczanski present original papers and essays, many of which have never been published in English and those that have been translated were rarely presented in context. Each one of the chapters is accompanied by a scholarly introduction written by psychoanalysts, many who personally knew the pioneer and his oeuvre in depth, and trace the roots of their ideas in the European analytic schools.

Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski and Alberto Pieczanski provide a coherent guide to the seminal ideas and practices of the South American psychoanalysts who have made major theoretical and clinical contributions to the advancement of the psychoanalytic discipline. The chapters present the material in a way that is accessible to psychoanalysts from across the globe and will enable them to incorporate the ideas and practices outlined here into their everyday psychoanalytic work.

Pressestimmen

"Nydia and Alberto Pieczanski made a thoughtful and careful collection of papers by the better known South American authors. The reader will be acquainted with the most valuable psychoanalytic contributions in the region." Horacio Etchegoyen

Über die Herausgeber

Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski is a Child and Adult Psychoanalyst.She is the founding chair of the Infant and Young Child Observation Program, Tavistock Method, at the Washington School of Psychiatry.She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Teaching Analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the Scientific Adviser and Teacher at 'Mind in Mind', Beijing, China.

Alberto Pieczanski is a Child and Adult Psychoanalyst. He is a Member of the IPA?s (International Psychoanalytic Association) Working Party on the study of the Analyst?s Unconscious Theories. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society, (APdeBA), faculty of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and faculty member of the Washington School of Psychiatry.