When Latin America Took the “Talking Cure”
An exhibition in London traces the history of psychoanalysis in the region, from dream-interpreting radio shows to Freud’s Peruvian connection.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America's ports Argentina loves to go to therapy. And not just any kind of therapy—Buenos Aires, the capital, has the world’s highest proportion of psychoanalysts: around 1.2 for every 100 inhabitants by 2013. But Argentina is not the only Latin American country that has been captivated, at some point in history, by the ideas of Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis. In 1940s Brazil, for example, the psychiatrist Gastão Pereira da Silva found an unconventional method of...
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