Luis de Rivera

José Luis Gonzalez de Rivera y Revuelta, born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1944, was a psychiatrist, pupil of Wolfgang Luthe, and educator in autogenics and anti-mobbing practices.

After studying medicine at the University of Navarra and doing his doctorate at the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, he specialized in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, being one of the pupils of autogenics teacher Wolfgang Luthe. Rivera later edited and published "Wolfgang Luthe Introductory Workshop: Introduction to the Methods of Autogenic Training, Therapy and Psychotherapy".

During his time in Canada, he worked at Montreal General Hospital, Québec, where he founded the Pychosomatic Unit. He would also become clinical lecturer of psychiatry at McGill University, and Full Professor Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Back in Spain he worked at Clínica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid while still teaching, first as Adjunct Psychiatry Professor Ad Honorem at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid promoting "serial meetings for medical students on psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy of functional disorders. The work culminated in a very well attended CME course on Psychotherapy in the Medically Ill." and then as Dean of Medical Psychiatry and Psychology at Universidad de La Laguna. In 1996 he became Director of Psychiatry at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Psychiatry Professor at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. Starting in 2009, he became Consulting Director of Psychiatry at Fundación Jiménez Díaz. Since 2010, he also directs the Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Investigation Institute in Madrid.

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