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The origins and professionalization of cognitive psychotherapy in Argentina
Date
2015-05Registration in:
Korman, Guido Pablo; Viotti, Nicolas; Garay, Cristian Javier; The origins and professionalization of cognitive psychotherapy in Argentina; American Psychological Association; History of Psychology; 18; 5-2015; 205-214
1093-4510
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Author
Korman, Guido Pablo
Viotti, Nicolas
Garay, Cristian Javier
Abstract
The growing popularity of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has helped reshape the mental health scene in the city of Buenos Aires, historically the stronghold of psychoanalysis. In the early 1980s, CBT was infrequently used and sometimes overtly resisted in the field of mental health. Almost three decades later, the impact of CBT has increased dramatically in Argentina, not only in private practice, but also in the health system and in everyday life. This paper aims to describe the process by which Argentine psychotherapists first adopted this new theoretical framework.