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It is fortunate that the data and text of Mário Pacheco is being included in this valuable historical scientific work on the pioneers of psychoanalysis in South America. It is within the context of scientific training that the implementation and development of psychoanalysis in South America, which happened half way through the last century, will find Mário amongst other pioneers.
He was born in 1917 and died in February 1991. His professional training as a psychoanalyst began in 1948, coinciding with the creation of the first two groups of psychoanalysts, and was completed by 1956.
In 1947 Mário Pacheco was in Buenos Aires, where he found other Brazilians who were searching for training in psychoanalysis – Marialzira and Danilo Perestrelo, Walderedo de Oliveira and Alcyon B. Bahía. In his memoirs, Pacheco enthusiastically recalls a meeting with Pichon-Rivière and how these Brazilians were making the most of the advances in psychoanalysis that already existed in Argentina. Back in Brazil, Pacheco was able to start his personal analysis with Dr. Mark Burke from London, who, thanks to negotiations with IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) and its president Ernest Jones, consented to come to Rio de Janeiro to psychoanalyze those interested in developing a group for analytical education and training in this city similar to the one that already existed in Sao Paulo.
The pioneers who joined together to found psychoanalytical societies began with the search of their own methods of psychoanalytical treatments. Some of the pioneers went to Buenos Aires to find the opportunity of
personal analysis and training, while others went to London. It is worth pointing out that within our group, a strong and advantageous assimilation of evolutionary ideas developed from the Kleinian school of thought. We had, amongst others, Thomaz Lira, who was analyzed by Paula Heimann and had supervision with Melanie Klein and from Décio Soares de Souza, who in turn was analyzed in London