The institute aims to promote training and theoretical-clinical research in the field of psychosomatic. To this end, the Institute promotes meetings and permanent exchanges with the members of its sister associations of France, Switzerland, Spain and Brazil. Another of its objectives is to provide institutional and personal supervision to professionals who work with patients with somatic pathology and provide psychotherapeutic assistance to this type of patients. The foundation in Argentina of the Pierre Marty Institute was the result of training in Paris with Dr. P. Marty for five years of the Dres. Carlos Calatroni, Marta T. de Calatroni, members of the Psychosomatic Institute of Paris