Overview

• The First National Meeting of Psychologists and Psychology Students took place in Córdoba from October 11 to 13, 1974, and on its final day participants approved fixing October 13 as the profession’s day.
• Reports note that the Confederación de Psicólogos de la República Argentina (COPRA) later became the Federación de Psicólogos de la República Argentina (FEPRA) in 1977, which remains active.
• Enrique Pichon Riviere (1907–1977) is remembered domestically as the founder of Social Psychology and a formative mentor to generations of practitioners.
• Biographical accounts highlight that Pichon Riviere was born in Geneva, earned his medical degree in 1936, and worked at the Asilo de Torres in Open Door and at Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires.
• Commemorative pieces published today reiterate the 1974 origin and institutional lineage of the day, with no new policy or organizational changes reported.