Jorge Bucay

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Jorge Bucay (born 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.

He 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 socks, books and sports clothing traveling salesman, insurance agent, cabdriver, 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 doctor 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 among conferences of therapeutic teaching, which have taken him around the world, and the writing of his books, which he says are therapeutic tools.

His published works include:

"Cartas para Claudia" (Letters for Claudia) (1986, 2nd ed. 2007)
"Recuentos para Demián" (Stories for Demián) (1994)
"Cuentos para pensar" (Stories for Thought) (1997)
"De la autoestima al egoísmo" (From Self-Esteem to Egotism) (1999)
"Amarse con los ojos abiertos" (Loving Oneself With Open Eyes) (with Silvia Salinas) (2000)
"Déjame que te cuente" (Let Me Tell You) (2002)
"Todo (No) Terminó" (It's (Not) All Over) (with Silvia Salinas) (2004)
"El Juego de los Cuentos" (The Game of Stories) (2004)
"Cuenta Conmigo" (Count on Me) (2005)
"El Mito de le Diosa Fortuna" (The Myth of the Goddess of Fortune) (2006)
"20 pasos hacia adelante" (Twenty Steps Forward) (2007)
"El candidato" (The Candidate).

Four books constitute his series, "Hojas de Ruta" (Leaves of the Road):

"El camino de la auto-dependencia" (The Road of Self-Dependence)
"El camino del encuentro" (The Road of Encounter)
"El camino de las lágrimas" (The Road of Tears)
"El camino de la felicidad" (The Road of Happiness)

His works have become bestsellers in Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Spain.

In 2005, he was accused of copying the fifth part of his book, Shimriti, from a text by Mónica Cavallé,^[1] though he later declared that it was "an absolutely involuntary error" while citing sources.