Enrique Pichon-Rivière practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Enrique Pichon-Rivière as Argentine psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and social psychologist (1907–1977).
Enrique Pichon-Rivière was born at Geneva in 1907. His recorded nationality is Argentina. He trained at University of Buenos Aires.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Argentina matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Enrique Pichon-Rivière died in 1977, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
