Javier Mariátegui

Javier Mariategui
Javier Mariategui photographed by Servais Thissen
Residence	Lima, Peru
Alma mater	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, M.D. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Ph.D.
Scientific career
Fields	Psychiatry Social psychiatry Psychopharmacology
Institutions	Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Notable students	Juan Mezzich Renato Alarcon
Influences	Honorio Delgado Hermilio Valdizan Sigmund Freud Jose Carlos Mariategui

Javier Mariátegui Chiappe (13 September 1928 – 3 August 2008) was a renowned Peruvian intellectual and psychiatrist. He was the last of the children of José Carlos Mariátegui and Ana Chiappe. Studied at the University of San Marcos where also he started teaching; he was also a founder of Cayetano Heredia University. He was also the founding director of the National Institute of Mental Health “Honorio Delgado - Hideyo Noguchi”. He died in Lima.

In 1947 he entered the University of San Marcos, studying in parallel pre-medicine and humanities, in 1949 he decided to follow studies in the Medicine Faculty of San Fernando. It was exactly with his companion of bench at the School San Luis, the Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, that took in parallel sciences and humanities, enjoying philosophy classes, as those of Mariano Iberico and also they studied the first year of medicine; both being also college students representatives. In 1956 he was received as M.D. with the thesis "Psychopathology of the experimental poisoning with dietilamida of acid d-lisérgico (LSD)" and he distinguished with the contenta for having obtained the highest grade during his studies, nevertheless he decided to stay in Peru.

In 1957 it was gotten up to teaching and she was head of clinic in the chair of Psychiatry that directed Honorio Delgado and like delegate of the professors of that category, integrated in 1960 the faculty board. In 1961 he participated in the movement of professors that determined the foundation of Cayetano Heredia University. Starting as TA, he was then incorporated to the department of Psychiatry as reader, in 1971 was promoted to the category of university professor. In 1972 he got the Degree of Medicine Doctor in the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, with the thesis: "Socio-psiquiatría en el Perú. Algunos aspectos de investigación". His hospital work began in 1957 in the hospital Victor Larco Herrera and since 1962 directed the Service of Mental Health "Honorio Delgado" of the Ministry of Public Health. He was Founder and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health “Honorio Delgado Noguchi” (1980 to 1987). In 1963 he published his first book Studies of Social Psychiatry in Peru with Baltazar Caravedo, Humberto Rotondo and in 1969 Psychiatric Epidemiology of an Urban District of Lima with Berna Alva and Ovidio de Leon.