Celes Ernesto Cárcamo. Pioneer of psychoanalysis in Argentina, founder of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical data
- 1 Birth
- 2 Trajectory
- 3 Achievements
- 4 Death
- 5 Sources
- 6 External links
Biographical data
Birth
He was born in the city of La Plata , Argentina in 1903 .
Trajectory
Coming from a family linked for seven generations with medical sciences , he obtained his doctorate in Medicine in 1930 . At the beginning of his practice he was oriented towards the Medical Clinic, in the chair of Professor Mariano Castex , at the Hospital de Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires . Man of a vast humanistic culture, interested in Philosophy and History , he also ventured into Homeopathy , attracted by a discipline that sought to understand man in his totality. In the chair of Castex he met Dr. James Mapelli , an Italian psychotherapist who practiced hypnosis. From this relationship he became interested in psychotherapy and devoted himself to passionately reading what he could find on the subject. The work of Sigmund Freud , which had recently been translated into Spanish, had a particular impact on him and he decided to move to Europe to pursue his training as a psychoanalyst.
Achievements
Within the Paris Psychoanalytic Society , he attended training seminars, did his didactic analysis with Paul Schiff and supervisions with Charles Odier and Rudolf Loewenstein , and presented, in 1939, his title work The Feathered Serpent. Psychoanalysis of the Mayan – Aztec religion and human sacrifice . In Paris he met Ángel Garma , a Spanish psychoanalyst trained in Germany , who after practicing psychoanalysis in Madrid for a few years , had gone into exile in Franceas a consequence of the Spanish Civil War . Together they decided to move to Buenos Aires, to promote the formation of a psychoanalytic group, which began to meet in 1939 and was constituted as a component Association of the International Psychoanalytic Association three years later. Cárcamo was Scientific Secretary of the first Board of Directors and President of the Second. Particularly interested in the application of Psychoanalysis to medical practice, he organized in 1958 the first course in PsychologyMedical that was carried out at the Faculty of Medicine of Buenos Aires and, years later, she actively participated in the creation of the Chair of Medical Psychology and the first official specialization course in this discipline, in which for years she taught the subject Psychotherapy .
Death
He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1990 .
