Sélika Acevedo de Mendilaharsu (1920-2017), Physician, Neurologist, Founding Member of the Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine, former President and Honorary Member of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association, passed away on 22 September 2017 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
 
The Board of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association announces with great sadness the death of our dearest colleague and teacher, former President and Honorary Member of APU, Sélika Acevedo de Mendilaharsu, occurred on September 22, 2017, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
 
Physician, Neurologist, Founding Member of the Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine. She contributed to APU and to the country as Chair of the Semiology and Neurological Clinics. She was Honorary Member of the Uruguayan Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy-AUDEPP. From the Medical Union of Uruguay-SMU she received the Union Distinction to the scientific merit, teaching and in the professional exercise.
 
She was author of important national and foreign publications and also papers of psychoanalysis published in various magazines and specialized books.
 
It is a great loss for the psychoanalytic community.

 
Dr. Aurora Polto, Secretary    
Lic. Susana García Vázquez, President, Rector of the University Postgraduate Institute of Psychoanalysis