ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis in Mexico is officially circa 60 years old, but even before the 1930s, Sigmund Freud's ideas were known and discussed and could be applied clinically by some medical doctors interested in the new developments in Austria and Germany, even though the medical tradition in Mexico was very closely related to France and very little with the other European countries. Interest has been active on social and community issues developing a concept –Pyscho–Community –where social and family groups can benefit from psychoanalytic knowledge about development and interpersonal relations. Political issues, such as the democratic changes now present in the country's social movements, have been analysed. Mexico is a territory whose geographical and chronological characteristics combine to locate the country "in-between" two main influences that have a deep effect on it. Geographically, Mexico is a neighbour of the United States of America and Canada to the north, and of Central and South America to the south.
