Mario O'Donnell best known as Pacho O'Donnell, is an Argentine

Argentina

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 writer, politician and physician who specializes in psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

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He was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 to Mario Antonio O'Donnell and Susana Lucrecia Ure, and is married to Susana Evans Civit, with whom he has five children. His brother Guillermo

Guillermo O'Donnell

Guillermo O'Donnell was a prominent Argentine political scientist, named the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. His brother, Pacho O'Donnell, is a well-known politician and writer.-Biography:O'Donnell was born in...

 is a noted political scientist.

After the return to democracy

Argentine general election, 1983

The Argentine general election of 1983 was held on 30 October and marked the return of Democracy after the 1976's dictatorship self-known as National Reorganization Process...

 in Argentina in 1983, he was named Secretary of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires. He ran unsuccessfully for the 1988 presidential nomination in the Radical Civic Union

Radical Civic Union

The Radical Civic Union is a political party in Argentina. The party's positions on issues range from liberal to social democratic. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International. Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, it is the oldest political party active in Argentina...

 primaries, but later became a Peronist and was elected to the Argentine Senate

Argentine Senate

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 for the city of Buenos Aires. President Carlos Menem

Carlos Menem

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 appointed O'Donnell Ambassador to Bolivia

Bolivia

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 and Paraguay

Paraguay

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, as well as Secretary of Culture. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

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 in 2001.

He is currently engaged on the diffusion of Argentine historical

History of Argentina

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 knowledge, being part of the "neorevisionist" school which contests the official reading of history imposed in Argentina (democracy being restaured only in 1983), and wrote Historia confidencial (Confidential History) with fellows historians José Ignacio García Hamilton

José Ignacio García Hamilton

José Ignacio García Hamilton was an Argentine writer, noted historian, lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Radical Civic Union representing Tucumán Province.- Biography :...

 and Felipe Pigna

Felipe Pigna

Felipe Pigna, born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires, in 1959, is an Argentine historian and writer. He's currently among the best selling book authors from Argentina.- Biography :...

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He received the "Isabel la Católica" ("Isabella the Catholic") order from the Spanish King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I of Spain

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, and the "Palmas Académicas" ("Academic palms") in France. The legislature of Buenos Aires honoured him as illustrious citizen in October 2009.

Novels

• Doña Leonor, los rusos y los yanquis (1981)
• El tigrecito de Mompracén (1980)
• Las hormigas de Carlitos Chaplín (1977)
• Copsi (1973; the title is a combination of Coca and Pepsi)

Essays and history

• El Prójimo
• Juana Azurduy, la Teniente Coronela (1994)
• El descubrimiento de Europa (1992)
• Monteagudo, la pasión revolucionaria
• El grito sagrado, with Alejandro Dolina
  Alejandro Dolina
  Alejandro Ricardo Dolina is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.-External links:* at AlejandroDolina.com.ar * : listen to La venganza será terrible online...
  
  
• El águila guerrera
• El rey blanco
• Juan Manuel de Rosas, el maldito de nuestra historia oficial
• El Che
• Los héroes malditos
• Historia confidencial, with José García Hamilton and Felipe Pigna
  Felipe Pigna
  Felipe Pigna, born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires, in 1959, is an Argentine historian and writer. He's currently among the best selling book authors from Argentina.- Biography :...
  
  

Psychology

• Analisis freudiano de grupo (1984)
• El juego – Técnicas lúdicas en psicoterapia
• La teoría de la transferencia en psicoterapia grupal (1977)
• Teoría y técnica de la psicoterapia grupal (1975)
• Psicología Dinámica Grupal (1980)

External links

• Official site (in Spanish). It has excerpts of his latest historical works.