Pacho O'Donnell


Mario Ernesto O'Donnell Ure, known professionally as "Pacho O'Donnell", is an Argentine writer, politician, historian and physician who specializes in psychoanalysis.

Career

After the return to democracy 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 primaries, but later became a Peronist and was elected to the Argentine Senate for the city of Buenos Aires in 1998. President Carlos Menem appointed O'Donnell Ambassador to Bolivia and Paraguay, as well as Secretary of Culture. He was elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature in 2002.
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, and hosted the television show Historia confidencial with fellow historians José Ignacio García Hamilton and Felipe Pigna.
He received the "Isabel la Católica" order from the Spanish King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and the "Palmas Académicas" in France. The legislature of Buenos Aires honoured him as illustrious citizen in October 2009.

Family

Born in Buenos Aires to Mario Antonio O'Donnell Suárez and Susana Lucrecia Ure Aldao, he is married to Susana Evans Civit, with whom he has five children. His brother, Guillermo, was a noted political scientist.

Works

Fiction

Short stories

Novels

  • Doña Leonor, los rusos y los yanquis
  • El tigrecito de Mompracén
  • Las hormigas de Carlitos Chaplín
  • ''Copsi''

Non fiction

Essays and history

Psychology

  • Analisis freudiano de grupo
  • El juego - Técnicas lúdicas en psicoterapia
  • La teoría de la transferencia en psicoterapia grupal
  • Teoría y técnica de la psicoterapia grupal
  • ''Psicología Dinámica Grupal''