Fernando González Rey (1949-2019)

Abstract

Memorializes Fernando González Rey (1949-2019). González Rey was a Cuban psychologist, scholar, and educator whose intellectual legacy offers a new, complex, and influential understanding of subjectivity from a cultural-historical standpoint. He published 38 books, more than 80 book chapters, and 135 scientific articles published in five languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Russian, and French). His work is characterized by its breadth, depth, and creativity and contributes mainly to the fields of cultural-historical psychology, qualitative research, education, psychotherapy, and human health. In 2000, after spending 4 years as a visiting professor at the University of Brasilia, for political reasons he was prevented from returning to Cuba, as he wished. He was also removed from the Cuban Communist Party. In this process, he was forced to settle in Brazil. Along with his academic partner and wife, Albertina Mitjáns Martínez, he then worked in various Brazilian universities, having the University Center of Brasilia as his main workplace. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).