Person
Ángel Garma
Spanish-born psychoanalyst, analysed by Theodor Reik in Berlin, who emigrated to Argentina in 1938 and is often called the founder of psychoanalysis there. He helped found the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association in 1942 and was its first president, and wrote on dreams, psychosis and psychosomatic illnesses such as peptic ulcer and headache.
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- analysed Heinrich Racker
In Buenos Aires Racker resumed his analysis, first with Garma, before his later training analysis with Marie Langer.