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Bernardo Houssay, Horacio Rimoldi y la formación de investigadores en Psicología: Una bisagra entre CONICET y las Universidades Argentinas

2020; Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid; Volume: 41; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5093/rhp2020a10

2445-0928

María Andrea Piñeda,

Psychology and Mental Health

In Argentina, between the mid-1950s and 1970s, successive political and economic crises were accompanied by transformations in the university system and in science and technology policies.At the same time, the figure of the professional psychologist emerged with a clinical-psychoanalytic profile and competences with diffuse and controversial limits regarding the medical field.Management sectors of CONICET and of some universities argued that this profile was not very conducive to the scientific development of psychology and they came together on a researchers training project.A key figure in fostering this mission was the prestigious Argentine academic Horacio Rimoldi.He was a disciple of the Nobel Prize winner and first President of CONICET Bernardo Houssay, and he directed a psychometry laboratory at