
Juan José Lopez-Ibor (
Sollana
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Situated on the floodplain of the Júcar River, the Sollana region is where rice was fir ...
,
Valencia
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, 22 April 1906
Madrid
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1991) was a Spanish psychiatrist.
He studied medicine at the University of Valencia and of Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 1930. In 1932, he was awarded the chair of Legal Medicine in
Santiago de Compostela
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; later, the chair of Psychiatry in
Salamanca
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, In 1960, he succeeded Antonio Vallejo Nájera at the Chair of Psychiatry in
Madrid
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. In 1940, he founded
Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría. From a very young age he was considered opposed to the Freudian method of psychoanalysis. In 1967 he created the López Ibor Clinic in Madrid.
From 1966 to 1971, Juan José Lopez-Ibor was president of the
World Psychiatric Association
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Objectives and goals
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.
He is the father of
Juan José López-Ibor Aliño
Juan José López-Ibor Aliño (Madrid, 17 December 1941 - Madrid, 12 January 2015) was a Spanish psychiatrist.
Son of Juan José López-Ibor, he graduated in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1965 and obtained his doctorate at ...
, and grandfather of María Inés López-Ibor Alcocer. He died of Alzheimer's disease.
Work
*Neurosis de guerra (1939)
*Epilepsia genuina (1941)
*La angustia vital (1950)
*El descubrimiento de la intimidad (1952)
*El español y su complejo de inferioridad (1953)
*Lecciones de Psicología médica (vol. I, 1957; vol. II, 1961)
*Libro de la vida sexual (1968)
*De la noche oscura a la angustia (1973)
*Cómo se fabrica una bruja (1976)
References
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Spanish psychiatrists
1906 births
1991 deaths
Complutense University of Madrid alumni