Arminda Aberastury
Argentinian psychologist, psychoanalyst & academic
About Arminda Aberastury
Lived 1910 – 1972 (aged 62). Arminda Aberastury was an Argentine psychologist, writer, psychoanalyst and university teacher.
Arminda Aberastury de Pichón Rivière (1910–1972), known as La Negra, was an early Argentinian psychoanalyst.
She was born in Buenos Aires. Through her brother Frederico, who suffered from mental illness, she came to meet Enrique Pichon-Rivière, and married him in 1937. She joined a local, mostly European group interested in psychoanalysis.
Receiving a training analysis from Ángel Garma, one of the group, Arberastury then developed the analysis of children in the style of Melanie Klein and Sophie Morgenstern. She led a seminar on the area, 1948 to 1952, for the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. She committed suicide in 1972.
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Argentinian psychologist, psychoanalyst & academic (1910–1972)
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Arminda Aberastury was born on 24 September 1910 in Buenos Aires.
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Arminda Aberastury died on 24 November 1972 in Buenos Aires.
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Arminda Aberastury was a psychologist, writer, psychoanalyst and university teacher.
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Arminda Aberastury was Argentine.
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