Remembering a master: Julio F. Villegas Bustos (1944-2016)

We grieve the loss of Julio F. Villegas Bustos, an outstanding Chilean psychologist who ceased to exist on March 11, 2016, after many years of struggle against a painful illness. Previously (Arias, 2016; Caycho, 2016; Salas, 2016), Villegas' virtues as a friend, an academic and a citizen endowe...

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Main Author: Caycho, Tomás
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2017
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/14361
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Summary:We grieve the loss of Julio F. Villegas Bustos, an outstanding Chilean psychologist who ceased to exist on March 11, 2016, after many years of struggle against a painful illness. Previously (Arias, 2016; Caycho, 2016; Salas, 2016), Villegas' virtues as a friend, an academic and a citizen endowed, like few others, with moral integrity, love for freedom and democracy, as well as permanently devoted to the integral formation of youth have been commented on. Julio Villegas was born in 1944 in the city of San Carlos, Ñuble, Chile and studied psychology at the University of Chile in 1964. About his beginnings of university studies Julio Villegas mentions: "For a choice of educational principles, I always studied in the public system and thus completed the basic level, sharing the classroom and activities with my peers who represented the greatest social, religious and cultural heterogeneity" (Villegas, 2012, p. 277).