He attended elementary school in Caripe, Monagas State. At the age of 12, he moved with his parents to Caracas to study high school at the Liceo Andrés Bello (High School “Andrés Bello”), where he graduated in 1952. At a very young age, he developed a preference for literature, poetry and books in general, particularly humanism and existentialism, as well as psychology.
In 1956, he joined the ranks of the Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) (Communist Party of Venezuela), actively participating in student struggles, which led him to be arrested and tortured by the police of the dictatorial regime that ruled Venezuela (1957–1958).
He entered the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) Central University of Venezuela (UCV), in the program of medicine (1957), to specialize in psychiatry, a program that he abandoned due to the time lost in detention. In 1958, he began studying psychology at the UCV. Standing out as a student, he was hired in the last year of his undergraduate studies as an...
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Álvarez, N. (2023). Losada Silva, José Vicente. In: Jacó-Vilela, A.M., Klappenbach, H., Ardila, R. (eds) The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56781-1_626
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