Giberti, Eva

SEBASTIAN MATIAS BENITEZ

The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America

Palgrave Macmillan, - Springer

Lugar: Cham; Año: 2021; p. 1 - 3

Social worker, psychologist and one of the main disseminators of psychoanalysis in Argentina since the 1960s. Her profuse work in mass-media, magazines, books, radio and TV appearances made her a cultural and social reference on child-rearing patterns from an expert and, at the same time, friendly and approachable perspective. She was, also, one of the first psychologists to work on gender issues in Argentina, including topics related to female eroticism, mother-child relationships, adoption, sexual abuse and social inequality.She graduated as a teacher and then as a Social Worker with orientation in Juvenile Court from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, UBA). In addition, she continued her training through a series of WHO-funded fellowships at the Centre Internationale de l´Enfance (International Childhood Centre, CIE) in Paris, Belgium, and Italy. In the mid-1960s, she graduated as a psychologist (UBA) and she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad de Rosario (University of Rosario) and from the Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (Autonomous University of Entre Ríos) in 2006 and 2010, respectively.