Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in Sammamish, Washington. He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is author of The interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis and the forthcoming Libido, Culture and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud's Totem and Taboo. He served as guest editor of the first edition of the International Journal of Controversial Discussions in February 2020.
Robert Bergman, MD graduated from college, medical school and psychiatric residency at the University of Chicago. He has served as chief of the mental health program of the Navajo Area of the Indian Health Service, chief of mental health programs of the IHS nationally and director of psychiatric residency programs at the University of New Mexico. He is a graduate of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and is a training analyst. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington.
Lucy Biven MAEd, BA, trained in child & adolescent psychotherapy at the Anna Freud Center in London England. I have been in private practice and have worked as head of child & adolescent psychotherapy in the Leicester NHS. I have studied neuroscience for the past 25 years and in 2012 co-authors The Archaeology of the Mind with Jaak Panksepp.
Marco Conci, MD is an Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, working in Munich (Germany) and Trento (Italy). He is a full member of the German and of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and of the IPA. Since 2007, he is the Coeditor-in-chief of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, and is the European Co-chair of the Int. Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals (ICEPJ). His latest book publication: Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell,
Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis (New York, IPBooks, ).
Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), PhD is on the faculty of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a supervisor of psychotherapy and faculty, William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She is a training and supervisory analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Los Angeles. She is also an associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Crastnopol is on the executive committee and the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, Routledge, 2015, and other works. Dr. Crastnopol is in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle, WA.
Ofra Eshel Is a faculty member, and training and supervising analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); co-founder, former coordinator and faculty member of the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Advanced Psychotherapists at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, and of the Israel Winnicott Center, and she is on the advisory board of the International Winnicott Association (IWA); founder and head of the post-graduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” at the advanced studies of the Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. She is book review editor of Sihot-Dialogue, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy. Her papers were published in psychoanalytic journals and presented at national and international conferences.
Ahron Friedberg, PhD is a psychoanalytically-trained psychiatrist in private practice with over 15 years experience. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at MSMC. He has also served as the National President of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians and held leadership positions in other professional organizations. Currently, Dr. Friedberg is the Managing Editor of Internationalpsychoanalysis.net and on the Editorial Board of International Psychoanalytic Books. Dr. Friedberg is co-author of Between Us: A Father and Son Speak, Love's Way, and other publications.
Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD maintains a practice in NYC and Stamford CT. He is the author of four text the latest of which Quantum Psychoanalysis won the Gravida Award for best book of 2016. He has published numerous articles and is a published poet. He is a graduate of the NPAP psychoanalytic institute, of which he was both President and chair of faculty. He is also on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review and Psychoanalytic Psychology. He had the fortunate opportunity to study with Theodor Reik.
Jeffrey H. Golland, PhD is Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and practices near Union Square in New York City.
Horst Kächele is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapy researcher. From 1990 to 2009 he held the chair for psychotherapy and from 1997 also medical director of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University of Ulm. From 1988 to 2004 he headed the Center for Psychoth erapy Research Stuttgart. He is considered an advocate of empirically based psychoanalytic research, sometimes also as Ulm School
of Psychoanalysis designated doctrine. Since the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin was founded in 2009, Horst Kächele has held a professorship there for research methods.
Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA, past President of the Contemporary Freudian Society, is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and elected North American representative to the IPA Board (2017 -). She is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Division 39 of the American Psychology Association, AAPCSW. A Training and Supervising Analyst who teaches, lectures, and consults on how to deepen psychoanalytic work, Hall is the author of: Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy and Deepening the Treatment and other articles. She is on the faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society, the New York School for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the Metropolitan Institute, and was a founder of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the first director of the Contemporary Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program. She is on the editorial board member of The American Psychoanalyst (TAP), and was a past editor of psychoanalysis.today. A graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work, the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy, and the Contemporary Freudian Society, Hall is in private practice in New York City.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt. is Fellow, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, Founder and Executive Director, Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (), Psychologist/Psychoanalyst/Group Therapist/Psychoanalytic Training Analyst and Senior Supervisor/ Psychotrauma, Developmental Mourning, Grief, Self-sabotage/Writing & Creative Blocks. Psychoanalytic Author & Theorist; 16 Awards for Psychoanalytic Writing, including 2004 Gradiva® Award from NAAP.
Mehmet Sagman Kayatekin earned an MD from Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey. Residency training in Adult Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Fellowship in Hospital based Psychoanalytic Therapies The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA. Candidate in Adult Psychoanalysis, Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Candidate in Adult Psychoanalysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Currently Chinese American Continual Training Program, For Senior Psychodynamic Psychotherapists, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China. Faculty, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, Texas, USA. Medical Director, Professionals Program, The Menninger Clinic, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston/Texas/USA. Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Tongji Medical College. Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hubei, Peoples Republic of China. Dr Kayatekin has published/presented and taught locally/nationally and internationally.
Zerrin Emel Kayatekin is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, The Menninger Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine. She received her medical degrees from Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey and other advanced degrees from Mass Medical School, Worcester, MA, and Berkshire Medical Center, MA She has been in practice for 42 years and is board certified in Psychiatry. Her recent publication include with co-writer Kayatekin, MS, a chapter on “The Team and the Milieu in the Psychotherapeutic Hospital” in “Psychoanalytic Conversations: From the Psychotherapeutic Hospital to the Couch.” August, 2016 and was a presenter at Wuhan Mental Health Center, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples Republic of China 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Adam M. Kelmenson, MS, is an assistant lecturer of Bioethics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Medicine. He also serves as coordinator of the Columbia University—Chinese University of Hong Kong bioethics academic partnership. Adam is active in bioethics curriculum development in the Asia-Pacific region focusing on local adaptations for traditional western bioethics teaching modalities. Adam holds a Master's of Science in Bioethics from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania.
Kimberly Kleinman is a Life Cycle Training and Supervising Analyst. She has co-edited “from Cradle to Couch, Essays in Honor Sylvia Brody” and “The Plumsock Papers, Giving New Analysts a Voice.” She has taught developmental approaches to understanding therapy in various institutes including the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Harlem Family Institute as well as in China.
Rómulo Lander is a Psychoanalyst doctor dedicated to the practice of Psychoanalysis. It belongs to the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas. He is a Didactic Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis of said Society. He is an active member of the International Association of Psychoanalysis (IPA) and of the Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation (FEPAL). He was a Psychiatrist graduated from UCV and Child Psychiatrist graduated from Harvard University . A student of the teachings of Jacques Lacan since 1979. He exercises teaching and clinical supervision functions in various postgraduate degrees in Caracas. He has exercised administrative functions in psychoanalytic institutions at the national, Latin American and global levels. He has published more than 150 psychoanalytic articles in national and international magazines and several books.
Arthur Leonoff, PhD, is a Supervising & Training Analyst with the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS). He is a past-president of the CPS and a recipient of the Society's Citation of Merit. He is also an Honorary Member of APsaA as well as a co-recipient of the Association's presidential citation. Dr. Leonoff is a former Board member of the IPA and remains very active in supporting this international organization. He is a committed teacher, supervisor and author.
Henry Zvi Lothane, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Author, 85 publications listed in PubMed on the practice and history of psychiatry and psychotherapy, including the book In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry and the published papers in journals about C.G. Jung & Sabina Spielrein, the Schreber Case, and the concept and method of dramatology.
Merle Molofsky is a psychoanalyst, fiction writer and poet, a produced playwright, and the recipient of the 2012 NAAP Gradiva Award for Poetry. She serves on the faculty of the Training Institute of NPAP, on the faculty and the Advisory Board of the Harlem Family Institute, and as a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Review. She has published numerous psychoanalytic articles in various journals, and chapters in psychoanalytic books, including Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion (IPBooks, ). Her two works of fiction, Streets 1970 and Necessary Voices , were published by IPBooks.
Lois Oppenheim, PhD, is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University. She has authored or edited fifteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (co-authored with Dr. Ludovica Lumer) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (awarded the
Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association). Other titles include The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art; Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor: Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists; and A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuropsychoanalysis. In addition, Dr. Oppenheim has published over 100 articles and is the co-creator of two documentary films.
Mark F. Poster, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System (VABHS); Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time, Harvard Medical School; Psychoanalytic Institute of New England Center; Private practice, West Newton, MA.
Adriana Prengler, LMHC, FIPA. is a native Spanish speaking Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Bellevue, Washington. She provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults, couples, adolescents and children. She has taught and supervised advanced psychotherapists for many years in graduate school programs as well as in advanced institutes training. She also lectures and writes on clinical topics. She did her training in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis in Caracas, Venezuela, where she worked for 30 years. She emigrated to the U.S. in 2010 and is bilingual in Spanish and English.
Austin Ratner, MD, is author of 4 books, 2 novels and 2 works of non-fiction, most recently The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof, published in 2019 by Arnie Richards's press IPBooks. Before becoming a full-time writer, Austin received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School and studied psychoanalysis through an APsaA mentorship with a training analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other publications and he has published journal articles in The Psychoanalytic Review and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His first novel The Jump Artist won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD, is a psycho-analyst and a poet. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and Fellow of IPTAR. She is currently faculty at the CFS and Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. Her psychoanalytic writings have helped clarify and bring to life issues of female development, perversion, loneliness, and the internal world of artists and poets.
Arnold Richards, MD, was Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and before that was an Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society, and an honorary member of the Karen Horney Clinic. He is currently on the faculty at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. He has written two volumes of selected papers: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives and co-edited four books. He is the publisher of and . He is in private practice.
Elizabeth Ronis, LCSW, BCD, Certified in Psychoanalysis, 1982; Member, Training Analyst, Supervisor, Former Treasurer, Member of Training and Program Committees, NPAP; Department of Psychiatry Adjunct Teaching Assistant, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Symposium Co-Chair ; Member, Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Association (CAPA); Training Analyst Supervisor Faculty, Treasurer, Vice-President, President of Council of Psychoanalytic Therapists: Member APA, Division 39, American Psychoanalytic Association and International Psychoanalytical Association. Former Member, NY Society of Security Analysts; Life Member, Art Students League; In private practice in NYC.
Joseph Schachter received a PhD. from Harvard University, an M.D. from N.Y.U. Bellevue and psychoanalytic training from the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center. He was a Training Analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, and is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.
Judith S. Schachter, MD is a graduate in adult psychoanalysis at the Columbia Center and subsequently from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has held psychoanalytic administrative posts both locally and nationally.
Leonie Sullivan, Psychoanalyst, Visiting Professor and Balint Group Leader & Supervisor, Wuhan Psychotherapy Hospital and Balint Group Leader and Educator, Peking Union Hospital & Peking Union Oncology Hospital, Beijing, China. Bachelor's degree in Social Work, University of New South Wales.
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, attended the University of Chicago BA ‘74, MD ‘74. He was Freud Professor, the Hebrew University and Wallerstein Research Professor . He has written several books (Reluctant Warriors, Sheba and Solomon's Return, Jacob and Joseph, Judaism's Architects; Lives Across Time (with H Massie); and edited Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development. He has written two novellas: JerusaLand and Breathless.
Ilene Wilets, PhD, serve as Chair for the Institutional Review Board within the Program for the Protection of Human Subjects at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is an Associate Professor within the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Wilets is active within the field
of bioethics, and is on faculty with the Clarkson University-Mount Sinai Bioethics Program and a lecturer for the Columbia University Masters Program in Bioethics. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Global Bioethics Initiative, an international non-profit organization dedicated towards fostering public awareness and understanding of bioethical issues.