Ignacio Martín-Baró: emblematic figure of Latin American social psychology

Abstract

Through this biobibliographical sketch contextualized in the pyschosocial political concrete reality of the Salvadoran people, and from there radiated to our America, we intend to recover and resignifiy Martín-Baró's socialscientific and christian humanist contribution (Social Psychology from Central America I and II, 1983-1989). The ideological dismantling, the denunciation of institutionalized lying and abuse of power, the description of the psychosocial effects of violence and war, the preoccupation for children and young people, for social and gender discrimination, and for the role of the Latin American psychologist, were some of the recurrent issues dealt with in researches, articles, papers and books by the jesuit priest Ignacio Martín-Baró, the vice-rector of SanSalvador's UCA's.