ABSTRACT
In 1942, however, the Asociacion Psicoanalitica Argentina (APA) [Argentine Psychoanalytic Association] was founded by six individuals who had a more formal exposure to and training in psychoanalysis: Celes Ernesto Carcamo, Angel Garma, Guillermo Ferrari Hardoy, Enrique Pichon-Riviere, Arnaldo Rascovksy, and Marie Langer. The APA was quickly given provisional recognition by Ernest Jones, President of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and at the 1949 Zurich Congress was recognized as a Member Society of the IPA. The Argentine psychoanalytic journal, Revista de psicoanalisis, which first appeared in 1943, played an important role in disseminating psychoanalysis throughout Latin America. Beginning in the early 1950s, a new group of analysts began to make important contributions to psychoanalysis in Argentina. In 1950, David Liberman, renowned for his writings on analyst–patient communication and styles of interpretation, joined the APA. Within Argentina, after much effort, and little by little, the psychiatric services of the public hospitals accepted psychoanalytic psychotherapy, both for individuals and for groups.
