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El desarollo de la sociedad psicoanalítica Mexicana y del Instituto Mexicano de Psicoanálisis
(1965)
>The Development of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society and the Mexican Institute for Psychoanalysis<: In this essay a description is given of the organizational development of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society, which was heavily influenced by Erich Fromm. After a first stage where a group of psychiatry graduates was trained as psychoanalysts by Fromm at the National Autonomia University of Mexico (the present author was himself among the trainees), the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society was founded in 1956, followed by the Mexican Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1963. An overview is given of the course of studies and methods used at the institute fortraining psychoanalysts; the procedures for screening applicants are also described as well as the various clinical specialties (e.g. focal therapy geared to special groups of clients). The article thus treats the reader to an instructive backward glance at the development of psychoanalysis in Mexico during the 50s and 60s.