Occupation Argentine writer Name Jorge Bucay | Role Writer Albums El juego de los 20 pasos | |
Born 1949 ( 1949 ) Buenos Aires Education University of Buenos Aires Books Cuentos para pensar, Let Me Tell You a Story: Tal, The Road of Tears, Cartas para Claudia, El camino de la autodependencia Similar People Paulo Coelho, Marcos Aguinis, Jorge Luis Borges, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer | ||
Presenting Jorge Bucay (with Russian voiceover)
Jorge Bucay (born October 30, 1949) is a gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and writer from Argentina. His books have sold more than 2 million copies around the world, and have been translated into more than seventeen languages.
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Biography
Bucay was born in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires in 1949 to a modest family. He started working at the age of thirteen. In the course of his life, he has worked as a traveling salesman selling socks, books and sports clothing, as well as an insurance agent, taxi driver, clown, warehouseman, educator, actor, doctor on duty, host of children's parties, psychiatrist, group coordinator, radio collaborator, and television host.
In 1973, he graduated as a MD from the University of Buenos Aires, and specialized in mental illnesses at the Buenos Aires Pirovano Hospital and at the Santa Mónica clinic.
He currently defines his job as professional helper. He divides his attention between attending therapeutic teaching conferences, which have taken him around the world, and the writing of his books, which he considers therapeutic tools.
Works
His published works include:
Five books constitute his series, "Hojas de Ruta" (Roadmaps):
His works have become bestsellers in Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Spain and Greece.
In 2005, he was accused of copying the fifth part of his book, Shimriti, from a text by Mónica Cavallé, though he later declared that it was "an absolutely involuntary error" while citing sources.