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Enrique Pichon-Riviere

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Enrique Pichon-Riviere was a Swiss-born Argentine psychiatrist considered one of the people who introduced group psychoanalysis to Argentina, and the creator of the group theory known as the operative group. In the 1940s he was a founding member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and in the 1950s he took part in creating the first private school of social psychology in Argentina along with the Argentine Institute of Social Studies. His theory of group functioning was built on a dialectical view of the relationship between dialectic, homeostasis and cybernetics.

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1907 1
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    Enrique Pichon-Rivière (June 25, 1907, July 16, 1977) was a Swiss-born Argentine psychiatrist, considered one of the introducers of group psychoanalysis in Argentina and generator of the group theory known as Grupo operativo (Operative Groups).
  • In Branch: Social Psychology, Lead
    In the 1940s he became one of the founding members of the Asociación Argentina de Psicoanálisis (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, or APA) and in the 1950s participated in the creation of the first private school of Social Psychology and the Instituto Argentino de Estudios Sociales (Argentine Institute of Social Studies, or IADES).
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