ABSTRACT
In 1957, under the initiative of Santiago Ramirez, one of the founding members of the recently established Mexican Psychoanalytic Association, four non-medical professionals and one medical doctor formed the first group to be trained by the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association (MPA) following the Eitingon's model of psychoanalytic training. In 1964 Diaz Infante responded to a request for psychoanalytic training from Frida Walerstein de Rosenberg, a psychologist, and they contacted Ramirez about the possibility of founding a psychoanalytic training institution for psychologists. Mexican Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MAPP) was indisputably the first organization in Mexico to offer analytic training to non-medical professionals, primarily psychologists. The association led the way on this issue and was followed by many other parallel psychoanalytic organizations that sprang up in the wake of Mexican Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: developments that transformed the Mexican psychoanalytic landscape. During the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes AMPIEP was involved in therapeutic rescue activities.
