Universidad del País Vasco (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2013;16:E31. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2013.53.
On November 16, 1989 the world was shocked by the news of the assassination of six Jesuits at the campus of the Universidad Centro Americana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Among those murdered by government soldiers was Ignacio Martín-Baró, a PhD in social psychology from the University of Chicago who at that time was the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Vice-President of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP). Drawing on Martín-Baró's published writings and non-published academic papers and correspondence, this article traces the evolution of the Spanish-born Jesuit who became a leading authority among Latin American social psychologists. In particular, it analyzes his project of becoming a clinical psychologist under the influence of psychoanalysis, his critical social psychology aimed to "de-ideologize" the oppressed social classes of El Salvador, and his ultimate project of a psychology of liberation for Latin America. Martín-Baró's work came to a tragic end just when it began to bear fruit, but it stands as a testimony to a lifetime committed to the human values of democracy, social justice and service to society's poorest and most neglected.
1989 年 11 月 16 日，世界震惊于萨尔瓦多中美洲大学（UCA）校园内 6 名耶稣会士被暗杀的消息。在被政府士兵杀害的人中，有芝加哥大学社会心理学博士伊格纳西奥·马丁-巴罗（Ignacio Martín-Baró），他当时是学术事务副校长和美洲心理学协会（SIP）副主席。本文通过马丁-巴罗发表的著作和未发表的学术论文和信件，追溯了这位出生于西班牙的耶稣会士的演变历程，他成为了拉丁美洲社会心理学家的权威人物。特别是，本文分析了他在精神分析的影响下成为临床心理学家的计划，他旨在“去意识形态化”萨尔瓦多受压迫社会阶层的批判性社会心理学，以及他最终为拉丁美洲建立解放心理学的计划。马丁-巴罗的工作在刚刚开始取得成果的时候就悲惨地结束了，但它证明了他一生致力于民主、社会正义和为社会最贫困和最被忽视的人服务的人类价值观。
