ABSTRACT
Egas Moniz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on angiography and cerebral leucotomy, first introduced Freud's works in Portugal. His first paper on psychoanalysis is dated 1915. It was the initial lesson within the structure of a neurology course, the title of which was "As Bases da Psicanalise". During the pre-history of Portuguese psychoanalysis people should mention the name of Sobral Cid, a professor of psychiatry, who oriented Portuguese psychiatry towards psychopathology. Only during the decade of the 1950s was a proper psychoanalytic movement created in Portugal. The Lusitanian–Spanish Psychoanalytical Society continued to grow; at first members were analysts whose training had been concluded abroad; eventually, facilities for analysts' training were gradually established in Portugal and Spain. As a result of Pedro Luzes's report at the Congress of Romance-Language Psychoanalysts in Lisbon in 1968, the Portuguese analysts became acquainted with Wilfred Bion's ideas.
