Marie "Mimí" Lisbeth Langer (née, Glas; 31 August 1910 – 22 December 1987) was an Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist. She was a cofounder of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.

Biography

The daughter of Rudolf Glas and Margarethe Glas, Langer was born in

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in 1910. She had a sister, Gusti Eva Glas. Langer attended a private girls' school started by educato
Eugenie Schwarzwald
After finishing medical school (mid-1930s), she attended Freud's Psychoanalytic Institute. At the private school, the Schwarzwald Schule, Langer met

Else Pappenheim Else Pappenheim (born May 22, 1911 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary; died January 11, 2009 in New York) was an American neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of Austrian origin. __TOC__ Life Else Pappenheim came from a traditional Jewish famil ...

. Their lifelong friendship, documented in the 2019 book, ''Mimi & Els Stationen Eigner Freundschaft Marie Langer – Else Pappenheim – Späte Briefe''Fallend, Karl. ''Mimi & Els Stationen Einer Freundschaft Marie Langer – Else Pappenheim – Späte Briefe''. Erhard Löcker GesmbH, Wien 2019 continued through medical school and their escape from the Nazis. Pappenheim emigrated to New York City, and like Langer became a well-known psychiatrist and neurologist. Langer went to work for the International Medical Brigade in Spain during its

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. She then emigrated to

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and, in 1942, co-founded the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Forced into exile in 1974, she moved to

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

and was again involved in a private practice while maintaining the responsibilities of professor in

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at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

. She served as co-coordinator of the Internationalist Team of Mental Health Workers, Mexico-Nicaragua, and was also a co-founder of the Organization of Mental Health Workers. She died of cancer in Buenos Aires in 1987.

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