A Jesuit priest, Hernán Larraín was Universidad Católica de Chile’s (henceforth: UC) Escuela de Psicología (School of Psychology at the Catholic University of Chile) director from 1957 to 1967, where he also worked as a faculty member until his passing on September 6, 1974. He was born in Santiago de Chile on October 13, 1921, and studied philosophy at Colegio Máximo de San Miguel (Argentina). He then undertook theology studies at Louvain University (Belgium) and at Innsbruck University (Austria), where he obtained his BA in theology in 1953.
Between 1954 and 1956, he studied psychology at Munich University. In July 1957, he became head of UC’s Departamento de Psicología (Psychology Department), succeeding “Eduardo Rosales”. His time directing the department was consequential both at institutional and disciplinary levels. From an institutional perspective and following Rosales’ administration, Hernán Larraín: (a) achieved the autonomous status of the department, becoming UC’s Escuela...
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Cornejo, C. (2023). Larraín Acuña, Hernán. In: Jacó-Vilela, A.M., Klappenbach, H., Ardila, R. (eds) The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56781-1_267
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