La psiquiatría comunista argentina y las psicoterapias pavlovianas: propuestas y disputas (1949-1965)

Abstract

Este artículo reconstruye, desde el marco de los estudios de recepción, la conformación y posterior fractura de un círculo de psiquiatras pavlovianos dentro del comunismo argentino. Se analiza el surgimiento de este círculo, cómo fueron apropiados los saberes clínicos de psiquiatras soviéticos y franceses, la construcción de modelos psicoterapéuticos idiosincráticos en función de la competencia con otras corrientes psiquiátricas locales, así como las divergencias producidas por las diferentes interpretaciones sobre los alcances del pavlovismo. Se destaca el cruce de valores epistémicos y políticos en el intento de conformar una psicoterapia consistente con las premisas del marxismo-leninismo y el partidismo comunista.

This article reconstructs, from the frame of reception studies, the creation and later fracture of a pavlovian psychiatric circle within Argentinian communism. The emergence of this circle, the appropriation of Soviet and French psychiatric clinical knowledge, and the construction of idiosyncratic psychotherapeutic models depending on other competing local psychiatric schools are analyzed, as well as the divergences resulting from different interpretations of the scope of pavlovism. The intersection between epistemic and political values in the effort to construct a psychotherapy consistent with the premises of Marxism-Leninism and Communist partisanship is emphasized.

This article reconstructs, from the frame of reception studies, the creation and later fracture of a pavlovian psychiatric circle within Argentinian communism. The emergence of this circle, the appropriation of Soviet and French psychiatric clinical knowledge, and the construction of idiosyncratic psychotherapeutic models depending on other competing local psychiatric schools are analyzed, as well as the divergences resulting from different interpretations of the scope of pavlovism. The intersection between epistemic and political values in the effort to construct a psychotherapy consistent with the premises of Marxism-Leninism and Communist partisanship is emphasized.