Laura Gutman, born in 1958 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

, Argentina, is a therapist specializing in maternity psychology.

Biography

During the last military dictatorship in Argentina, she was exiled in

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. There she studied Learning sciences at

Paris 8 University Paris 8 University (), or usually the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis or Paris 8, is a public university in the Greater Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is base ...

. She enrolled

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and

naturopathy Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult ...

movements. She was disciple of

Françoise Dolto Françoise Dolto (; November 6, 1908 – August 25, 1988) was a French pediatrician and psychoanalyst. Biography Françoise Dolto was born as Françoise Marette, into an affluent, devoutly Catholic, royalist and Maurrassian family in Paris. He ...

and

Michel Odent Michel Odent (born 1930) is a French obstetrician and childbirth specialist. Education Born in a French village in 1930, Odent studied medicine in Paris and trained as a surgeon in the 1950s. He has been described in ''The Lancet'' as “one of t ...

. In 1988 she moved back to Buenos Aires. She started counseling young mothers on

parenting Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and educational development from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child and not exclusively for a biologica ...

. She founded the School of Parenting in Buenos Aires. Later on, she started to write books on the psychology of maternity. She has developed a new method of Psychotherapy called Human Biography Building.

Books in English

* Gutman, L. (2002). ''Maternity: Coming face to face with your own shadow''

References

External links

Official website (Spanish)
1958 births Living people Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis alumni Psychotherapists Argentine women writers Argentine feminists {{argentina-writer-stub