“Every moment a clot or some other type of exit occurs. When a cycle is complete, you end and.” I have to learn to say goodbye little by little” said Eva Giberti to the writer María Moreno in an interview in 2003. Twenty-two years have passed since this sentence, and only last Sunday, the 14th died in Buenos Aires its author, at 96 years of a life in which has left a major mark on psychology, human rights and public service.
Giberti He had two university degrees: the most famous, the degree in psychology. And the least that of Social workerthat was the old nomenclature for describing what social work is today. He completed both careers at UBA.
From a young age he practiced as a journalist at Mundo Argentino and La Razón.and in this newspaper he began to publish his “School for parents”where he gave recommendations and guidelines for a new educational model. This work received volumes and more than thirty issuesapart from becoming an entity of that name itself. Only a few of his first students remain alive Children raised under this paradigm must be over 65 years old..
Within psychology, like the vast majority of his Argentine colleagues, he leaned towards psychoanalysis, one of the national rarities of this academic field. He himself took lessons from Jacques Lacan in France. However, as a voracious reader, she tried to reach for other worlds until the end. “Psychoanalysis is no longer possible without minimal knowledge of economics and political science.. In other words, I keep moving forward, asking questions and challenging what I and others think,” he had noted in the above interview.
Her intellectual path, which led her to explore issues such as gender-based violence, mental health and adoption, led her to dedicate herself to these issues give lectures all over the world. For example, “The Role of Women for Peace” was the title given in Jerusalem in 1964 in the context of the Cold War and tensions between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries. In 1972 he organized another conference at the IX in Santo Domingo. International Congress of Pediatrics.
💔 Goodbye, our dear friend Eva Giberti. We hug your family and friends.
➡️https://t.co/jluj2Xbo33 pic.twitter.com/tSVliKTGGv– Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo (@abuelasdifusion) December 14, 2025
The following year, His life changed when one of his children, Hernán Invernizzi – the other is Vita Escardó, the result of Giberti’s relationship with the pediatrician Florencio Escardó – was arrested in September 1973. when, as a conscript, he facilitated the attack by the PRT-ERRP of the Army Health Command in Capital, in which Lieutenant Colonel Raúl Duarte Hardoy was shot. Invernizzi spent more than ten years in prisonand his mother never stopped visiting him on a journey that included Magdalena, Rawson and Devoto prisons.
In 1984, while his son was still imprisoned, She organized Wednesday dinners at her house with various personalities from the progressive world. Some of these participants like Jorge Lanataamong other things, later created Página/12, in which Giberti herself was involved as founder and later regular columnist.
Between 1993 and 1999 She was a consultant for UNICEF Argentina and vice president of the Permanent Commission on the Life of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean.. And in 2003, she was recognized as a “Famous Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires.”
He also took a keen interest in the topic of adoption.. And in 1981 he had already published a book on this topic in Sudamericana. Between 2008 and 2012, she was an advisor to the National Directorate of the Single Register of Applicants for Guardianship with Adoption Purposes between 2008 and 2012. Her reflections on this issue are and will be fundamental, given the decline in the number of adoptions and, somewhat less researched, the increase in families returning their adopted children.
Honorary member of the Argentine Association of Bioethics and advisor to the Forum for Women’s Rights, Giberti also joined the Presidential Council of the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights. In 2006 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National University of Rosario and in 2016 she received the Platinum Konex for Gender Studies.
Also founded and led the “Victims Against Violence” program in 2006, which initially operated under the purview of the nation’s Justice Department. Regarding this initiative, the Association of Psychologists of Buenos Aires recalled Giberti’s death: “He left an indelible mark by addressing violence from a comprehensive perspective and by being committed to the dignity of the people and the responsibility of the state.” He knew how to build bridges between the university, public policy and the most vulnerable sectors, without ever abandoning the complexity of thought. nor to the unique listening of each subjectivity. “His legacy is extensive, diverse and transversal and continues to guide clinical practices, institutional structures and current debates in the field of mental health.”
The same organization emphasized that “He said clearly and confidently: “I am not interested in training successful psychologists.” I am interested in training psychologists who are dedicated to their time and human suffering.’”. More than twenty books published by Giberti with various publishers have been preserved as a legacy. And as a positive feature of this very digital world, there are several interviews on YouTube to remember his image, his voice and his ideas until cyberspace allows it.
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