Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the New Library of Psychoanalysis for asking us to edit a book on the pioneers of psychoanalysis in South America, and especially its current editor, Professor Alessandra Lemma, who followed the editing process with much interest and made us always feel that it was worthwhile pursuing this project, and Karla Loyo, who made possible the inclusion in this book of the papers of the Brazilian pioneers.

We want to thank all the colleagues who collaborated with their essays on each one of the pioneers.

Some of the papers were previously published in English and we would like to thank the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Contemporary Psychoanalysis for granting us permission to republish.

We are grateful to Revista de Psicoanálisis (Argentina) and Revista Brasileira de Psicoanalise (Brazil) for giving us permission to publish English versions of papers originally written in Portuguese and Spanish.

Full details of the original publications and translations are given at the beginning of each paper.

We would like to also thank Kirsten Buchanan, Routledge’s Senior Editorial Assistant, who led us to the ‘finishing line’ of this complex publishing process, and the Library of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, which has an extraordinary collection of psychoanalytic papers from South America and its most helpful librarians.

Ana Pieczanski and Ana de Andrada did a great job translating Spanish and Portuguese papers that required many readings to understand the intended meaning.

Kathy Owen, Thomas Palley and Micheline Klagsburn helped us with thoughtful suggestions for the Introduction.