ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief review of the evolution of psychoanalytical thinking in the field, using snapshots of various theories over time. It describes how the interest in family psychoanalysis arose in Latin America, and reviews contributions made by Argentine analysts. In Argentina, Enrique Pichon-Joan Riviere began working with families of psychotics in the 1940s at Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires. By the late 1950s, he had developed a rich, functional thought system on the theory and technique of family therapy that deserves some exploration. The therapist's job is to try to help read those dreams or help take apart those nightmares. Latin America played a key role in the emergence and development of family and couple psychoanalysis, which occurred simultaneously in the USA and Argentina in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In Argentina, Alfredo Canevaro and Jorge Garcia Badaracco founded the Argentine Society of Family Therapy in 1978.
