Neonatology

Biography

Elena Castro was born in Santiago, Chile, at an extreme of the world, on February 1937. She studied Medicine at Universidad Católica de Chile. In the first promotion of women accepted to become medical doctors at this university, 1953 Years later she was certified as an American MD (ECFMG), but never went on to work abroad. She found Psychiatry as she was attending Medical School, and it has been her concern ever since. She acquired a degree as child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna. During this time she completed her psychoanalysis training at the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Years later, she is also recognised as a child and adolescent psychoanalyst having completed the training approved by the International Psychoanalytic Association. After years of work dedicated to private practice, teaching at the Institute of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association and giving seminars and supervisions to wider audiences, she focuses her attention on very early childhood, with the idea that special care for babies, is fundamental for a healthy mental development later on. She has been interested, for many years, in the Bick method of baby observation. She is now a member of the International Association of Baby Observation Bick, AIDOBB. She has long participated as a psychoanalyst in several activities at the Neonatology Service in the Hospital San José de Santiago.

Abstract

Abstract : Preserving the flame in the menthal life of premature babies