Ángel Garma
Ángel Garma Zubizarreta (June 24, 1904 – January 29, 1993) was a Spanish-Argentinian psychoanalyst, often called the founder of psychoanalysis in Argentina. He wrote about psychosis, psychosomatic illnesses such as gastric ulcers and headaches, and dream interpretation.
Born in Bilbao to a Basque family, he studied medicine in Madrid and then in Germany with Robert Gaupp and Karl Bonhoeffer, and trained as an analyst with Theodor Reik in Berlin. In 1931 he published a paper for the Berlin Psychoanalytic Association arguing that psychotics repress the id more than neurotics, contrasting with Freud’s view.
He practiced psychoanalysis in Spain from 1931 to 1936, then moved to France and finally emigrated to Argentina in 1938. There he helped found the Argentinian Psychoanalytical Association (APA) and served as its first president from 1942 to 1944, and he helped start the journal Revista de psicoanálisis.
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