ABSTRACT

The history of psychoanalysis in Chile and of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association (APCh) is well documented. It was Sigmund Freud himself who wrote about the first rapprochement between psychoanalysis and Chile. In 1911 he reviewed Dr German Greve's paper "On Psychology and Psychotherapy of Some Anxiety States". Dr Greve was a Chilean doctor who did his postgraduate studies in Germany in 1893. This paper, which was presented at an international congress in Buenos Aires in 1910, is the first reference to psychoanalysis in Latin America, and Freud considered it important enough to mention in his "On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement". In 1960, after the Third Latin American Congress of Psychoanalysis, held in Santiago, internal conflicts began to appear within the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society. The challenge that the APCh is facing is to find ways to develop university-level activity without a deterioration in the psychoanalytic institution itself.