Heinrich Racker (1910, Poland – 28 January 1961, Buenos Aires) was a Polish-Argentine psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish origin.
[1] Escaping Nazism, he fled to Buenos Aires in 1939.
Already a doctor in musicology and philosophy, he became a psychoanalyst, first under the direction of Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, and later working with Ángel Garma and Marie Langer in Argentina.
His most important work is a study of the psychoanalytic technique known as transference and countertransference, which was published for the first time in 1968.
His brother, Efraim Racker, was a famous biochemist.