Jorge Bucay
Jorge Bucay (Buenos Aires, October 30, 1949) is an Argentine doctor, psychodramatist, Gestalt therapist and writer. He was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Floresta. [citation needed ]
Biography
He was born in Buenos Aires on October 30, 1949. His four grandparents were Syrian immigrants from Damascus, three of them Jewish and one Christian. He completed his academic training at the University of Buenos Aires. He graduated as a doctor in 1973 and specialized in mental illnesses in the interconsultation service of the Hospital del Carmen in the city of California and in the Santa Mónica clinic in the Province of Buenos Aires.[citation required] He began his career as a psychotherapist in the interconsultation team of the Pirovano College. Later, he trained as a Gestalt psychotherapist in Argentina and the United States, attending courses, seminars, and congresses in Argentina, the United States, Spain, and Italy.[citation required] He joined the Argentine delegation that participated in the 1997 International Gestalt Congress, held in Cleveland, United States.[citation required]
In the 1960s he met his wife Perla, whom he married in 1973. The couple had two children: Claudia and Demián. Demián Bucay follows in his father's footsteps with a very similar career: he is a therapist, lecturer and author.
He worked as a didactic supervisor and coordinator of gestalt laboratories, was a member of the American Association of Gestalt Therapy and coordinator of therapeutic and teaching groups in Granada, Spain and Mexico.[citation required ] He stood out above all for his presence in numerous media outlets as a collaborator and even as the host of his own television program.
Defined as "professional helper" since, according to him, through his conferences and his books he tries to offer therapeutic tools, so that everyone is able to heal themselves.
«I also needed to define myself; not to be discriminated against, it was not what others were but what was it? So I had to look for a new way of defining myself. And I found it: professional assistant. The helper thing, and the professional thing because I'm trained for work, and I'm charging to do it.». Jorge Bucay
He considers that the recovery of stories as a form of communication is part of a movement to rescue traditional values;[citation required] and that society is guilty of the individual's problems only until he becomes an adult.
«I work on the idea of your life, what you have is your responsibility. I think the world is not a place to compete, but to share, and a necessary condition is to look at oneself». Jorge Bucay
The works of Jorge Bucay have become best sellers in Spain and in many Spanish-speaking countries, such as Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay, Costa Rica. In addition, they have been translated into twenty languages. Some of the most relevant are Letters for Claudia, Let me tell you, Stories to think about, Amarse con los ojos abiertos and the novel El candidad, awarded in Torrevieja in 2006. Bucay has also written a series of books that he calls "Hojas de route”: The path of self-reliance, The path of encounter, The path of tears and The path of happiness.
The value of Bucay's literary work is a controversial issue. Some literary critics, such as Osvaldo Quiroga, consider the author mediocre and elementary. Others synthesize Bucay's style, highlighting his understandable and light colloquial language, which would try to lead the reader to find answers about human behavior and reasoning and expand the "horizons of thought" to better understand life itself, change the appreciation of things and consequently modify their own life to live in peace and happiness.[citation required]
About his method of writing, the author has stated:
«I aggiorno and modifio. I am not the great thinker or wise man who wants to make me». Jorge Bucay
Accusation
After publishing his book "Shimriti" In 2003, Bucay was accused of plagiarism, saying that it contained some 60 pages copied almost verbatim from the work "La sabisidad recuperada" by the Spanish Mónica Cavallé, published in 2002. According to the author himself, the matter would be an involuntary error, in which texts by the Spanish author were included without the corresponding mention of their source. it is not 60 pages but 7 paragraphs, proposing the texts themselves as evidence. By request of the author himself, in the reissue of "Shimriti" Mónica Cavallé's work was cited correctly.
To this day, Bucay maintains that the media coverage of the case is just a smear campaign. Mónica Cavallé affirmed that the Argentine author apologized to her and that she desisted from initiating legal actions.
Works
- Two numbers less
- The island of emotions
- Letters for Claudia (1986)
- Counts for Demián (1991)
- Tales for thinking (1997)
- From self-esteem to selfishness (1999)
- The coach: A live book... (2000)
- The Way of Self-Dependence (2000)
- 20 steps forward (2000)
- The Way of the Meeting (2001)
- The Way of Tears (2001)
- The Way of Happiness (2002)
- Shimriti. From ignorance to wisdom (2003). Then the book was reprinted with the name "The Path of Shimriti".
- Let me tell you (2005)
- Account with me (2005)
- The Myth of the Goddess Fortune (2006)
- The candidate (2006). Novel winner of the Novela City of Torrevieja Award
- The city of the wells
- All three questions. Who am I? Where am I going? With whom? (2008)
- Elephant chained (2008), with illustrations by Gusti
- Get to the top and keep climbing. Keys for a Spiritual Way (2010)
- The feared enemy (2012), with illustrations of gusti
- A sad story not so sad (2014)
- It leads to a better life (September 2014)
- Always start again (2016)
- Today begins the rest of your life
- I want (Reflections on a poem)
- Classic Tales to get to know you better
- God's favorite story
Collaborative works
- Love with open eyes (2000), with Silvia Salinas
- Continue without you (2009), with Silvia Salinas
- The garage (with Marcos Aguinis)
- The search engine (2016)
Audiobooks
- The game of stories
- The game of the 20 steps
Collaborations
- Everything (no) endedby Silvia Salinas, with prologue and story by Jorge Bucay