Horacio Etchegoyen, psychoanalyst and author of the seminal and widely acclaimed 'The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique', was the first Latin-American President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), from 1993 to 1997, an Honorary Vice-President of the IPA, and President of the Asociacion Psicoanalitica de Buenos Aires (APdeBA) from 1977 to 1978.