Arminda Aberastury de Pichón Rivière (1910–1972), known as La Negra, was an early Argentinian

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. She was born in

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. Through her brother Frederico, who suffered from mental illness, she came to meet Enrique Pichon-Rivière, and married him in 1937. She joined a local, mostly European group interested in psychoanalysis. Receiving a

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from Ángel Garma, one of the group, Arberastury then developed the analysis of children in the style of Melanie Klein and Sophie Morgenstern. She led a seminar on the area, 1948 to 1952, for the Argentinian Psychoanalytic Association. She committed suicide in 1972.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aberastury, Arminda 1910 births 1972 deaths Argentine psychoanalysts 1972 suicides Suicides in Argentina