Goldenberg, Mauricio

VISACOVSKY, SERGIO E.

The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America

Palgrave Macmillan

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2022; p. 1 - 4

Mauricio Goldenberg was an Argentine psychiatrist, who advocated an important reform of the psychiatric care system in the country, which reflected very especially in a celebrated psychiatric service in a general hospital, usually referred to as "Lanús," between 1956 and 1972. He was the youngest and only male of four brothers, whose parents were Ukrainian Jews. After completing his primary and secondary education in Buenos Aires, he graduated in medicine from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (University of Buenos Aires) in 1945. With Carlos Pereyra (1903-1990) as his thesis advisor, Goldenberg addressed the clinical aspects of alcoholism. He carried out his specialization in psychiatry at Hospicio de las Mercedes (currently, "José Tiburcio Borda" psychiatric hospital), in which Gonzalo Bosch (1885?1967) was the director. There he met Enrique Pichon Rivière (1907?1977) and Celes Cárcamo (1903?1990), founding members of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (Argentine Psychoanalytical...