Ignacio Martín-Baró

A person that I admire in the field of the psychology is Ignacio Martín-Baró. He was born in Spain, in Valladolid, the November 7^th of 1942 and he died in the November 16 of 1989. He was a great psychology and he dedicated the most part of his life as psychology to the investigation about the social and politic reality about a little country of Latin America, El Salvador. In this country he was a teacher of the University “Jose Simeon Cañas” and he was the responsible of department of Psychology and Education.

I admire Martin-Baró because I think that his theory of the liberation have reason in more things.  In this theory he affirmed that the psychology is a practice that shouldn’t study the persons from an artificial position. So, the psychology should works with the people from any context in specific that is to say, for example, the psychologist can’t use methods make in EE.UU in the context of El Salvador, because the social reality in two countries are very different.