I’ve just found an enjoyable BBC World Service radio documentary on the relationship between tango and psychoanalysis in the Argentinian city of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires is the birthplace of tango and, as we’ve discussed before, has the highest ratio of psychologists to population of any place on earth.
The city has traditionally been one of the world centres for psychoanalysis and it remains a hub for theory and treatment drawn from the work of Sigmund Freud.
The BBC documentary looks at the relationship between the city’s love of therapy and one of the most psychological of dances, talking to both enthusiasts and conscientious objectors.
Link to documentary with mp3 and streaming.
Mind Hacks 
I’ll look forward to hearing this, but am slightly shocked that the intro on the webpage appears to take psychoanalysis as a legitmate therapeutic approach for people who have “lived through dictatorships” (or anything else, come to that.