Ignacio Matte Blanco - Life

Life

Born in Santiago, Chile, Matte Blanco was educated in Chile, and before leaving Chile for London, 'was in analysis with Fernando Allende Navarro, Latin America's first qualified psychoanalyst. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital and in psychoanalysis at the London Institute, where he was in supervision with Anna Freud and James Strachey, becoming a member of the British Society in 1938'. He subsequently worked in the United States, Chile, and Italy, where his family now lives. He died in Rome at the age of 86.

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