Paula Wajsman
Paula Wajsman (26 August 1939 – 1995) was an Argentine psychologist, writer, translator, and researcher. Biography Paula Wajsman was the youngest daughter of a Polish immigrant family. At 4 years of age, after the San Juan earthquake (15 January 1944), her family decided to move from San Juan to Buenos Aires. She studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, lived in France and the United States, and was a friend and adviser to the novelist Manuel Puig. She worked as a translator (for example, of Émile Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method) and social researcher. She also worked as a psychoanalyst. One of her patients was the writer and poet Osvaldo Lamborghini. Her relationship with Lamborghini began as a psychotherapist, but then Lamborghini moved into her apartment. During a violent argument with Wajsman, Lamborghini threw her cat, named Vespasiana, from the eighth floor, killing it. In 1990 Wajsman published the novel Informe de París. This did not sell well, but was considered to be very influential by other writers of the decade. When she died of cancer in 1995 she left an unpublished novel called Punto atrás, two books of poetry, and 60 notebooks of poems, travel stories, and