Mimí Langer

Marie "Mimí" Lisbeth Langer (née, Glas; 31 August 1910 – 22 December 1987) was an Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist.^[1] She was a cofounder of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.

Biography

The daughter of Rudolf Glas and Margarethe Glas, Langer was born in Vienna in 1910. She had a sister, Gusti Eva Glas. Langer attended a private girls' school started by educator Eugenie Schwarzwald.^[2] After finishing medical school (mid-1930s), she attended Freud's Psychoanalytic Institute.^[3]

At the private school, the Schwarzwald Schule, Langer met Else Pappenheim. Their lifelong friendship, documented in the 2019 book, Mimi & Els Stationen Eigner Freundschaft Marie Langer – Else Pappenheim – Späte Briefe^[4] 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 Civil War. She then emigrated to Buenos Aires and, in 1942, co-founded the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Forced into exile in 1974, she moved to Mexico City and was again involved in a private practice while maintaining the responsibilities of professor in clinical psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.^[3] She served as co-coordinator of the Internationalist Team of Mental Health Workers, Mexico-Nicaragua,^[5] and was also a co-founder of the Organization of Mental Health Workers.^[6] She died of cancer in Buenos Aires in 1987.^[7]

References

Bibliography

• Hollander, Nancy Caro (8 April 2014). Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-46874-3.
• Fallend, Karl (April 2019). Mimi & Els. loecker-verlag.at. ISBN 978-3-85409-969-7.

External links

• Media related to Marie Langer at Wikimedia Commons
• Autobiography (in Spanish)