Pacho O'Donnell

Mario O'Donnell ( born Buenos Aires, 1941), best known as Pacho O'Donnell, is an Argentine writer, politician and physician who specializes in psychoanalysis. He is the son of Mario Antonio O'Donnell and Susana Lucrecia Ure, and is married to Susana Evans Civit, with whom he has five children. His brother Guillermo is a noted political scientist.

After the return to democracy in Argentina in 1983, he was named Secretary of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires. He ran unsuccessfully in the primaries for the presidential candidacy of the Unión Cívica Radical, but later switched to the Peronist cause, to be a national Senator for the Buenos Aires city, ambassador to Bolivia and Paraguay and national deputy.

He is currently engaged on the diffusion of Argentine historical 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 García Hamilton and Felipe Pigna.

Works

Fiction

hort stories

*"La seducción de la hija del portero" (1975)

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")

Non fiction

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
*"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

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) Edit Fundamentos

External links

* [http://www.odonnell-historia.com.ar/ Offical site] (in Spanish). It has excerpts of his latest historical works.