Joseph Aguayo, PhD, Member of New Center for Psychoanalysis, an institute affiliated with both the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, and a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He maintains a private practice in west Los Angeles and is currently is completing a book on the evolution of Bion's clinical method of inquiry: J. Aguayo, R.D. Hinshelwood, Sira Dermen, and Nicola Abel-Hirsch—Bion's Own Clinical Work: His Method of Clinical Inquiry, (a submission for Routledge Bion Series). Dr. Aguayo has also developed a series of 16 video-conference lectures: “Introduction to the Clinical Work of W.R. Bion.”
Dr. Aguayo has been a frequent contributor to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and co-edited two books on Bion's Clinical Seminars in Los Angeles, (2013); and Buenos Aires, (2017), presenting the results of his Klein and Bion's work at the International Psychoanalytical Association's bi-annual Congresses since 2002.
John S. Auerbach, PhD, Staff Psychologist in the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, where he works in the Psychiatric Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program. He is a Courtesy Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Florida and has served on the psychiatry faculties of East Tennessee State University, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also in private practice in Gainesville, Florida. He is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, and a member of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group. He has served as a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Research Training Program cosponsored by the Anna Freud Centre and the Yale Child Study Center. He has been
president of the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy, and the Journal of Personality Assessment. He has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. With Kenneth N. Levy and Carrie E. Schaffer, he coedited Relatedness, Self-Definition, and Mental Representation: Essays in Honor of Sidney J. Blatt, published by Routledge. He also was a consultant and a member of the Honorary Scientific Committee for the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2nd ed.; PDM-2), published by Guilford.
Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, is a Senior Researcher at the WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), and a Training Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association, as well as Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University (Detroit), he recently completed the “Rediscovering Psychoanalysis” trilogy: What is Psychoanalysis? (Routledge, 2013); Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay on Freeassociative Praxis (Routledge, 2016); and Beyond Psychotherapy (2019). As Director of Studies at the Parkmore Institute, he mentors students toward the Doctor of Psychoanalytic Studies degree.
Francis Baudry, MD, graduated from the New York University Medical School. Dr. Baudry works in New York, NY and specializes in Psychiatry. Dr. Baudry is affiliated with Mount Sinai Medical Center. Graduate of New York He is the author of numerous psychoanalytic articles and reviews. Among his most recent papers were “Working psychoanalytically with nonneurotic patients: theory and technique (2015)” and “Greenacre's “The predisposition to anxiety,' Parts I and II: A review” (2010) and “Absence, ambiguity, and the representation of creativity in Vermeer's the Art of Painting” (2007) and “Conflict, structure, and absence: André Green on borderline and narcissistic pathology” (2005) with Gail S. Reed.
Anita Bryce, PhD, a graduate of the Adult and Child Training Programs of the Baltimore Washington Center. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and current President of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bryce is Past President of the Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Society and Past Director of the Child and Adolescent Training Program of the Washington Psychoanalytic Center. She has been in private practice in McLean Virginia and Washington DC for the last 35 years and has been on the faculty of a number of universities and training programs. Dr. Bryce received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Vanderbilt University, and her masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. She has presented numerous papers over the years and has published in the following areas: treatment of emotionally disturbed children, mental health burnout, partial hospitalization of adolescents, and mental health law.
Fred Busch, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Dr. Busch has published over 70 articles in the psychoanalytic literature, and four books, primarily on the method and theory of treatment. His work has been translated into ten languages, and he has been invited to present over 160 papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His third book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Method and Theory of Psychoanalysis, was a finalist for the Gradiva prize. His last book was published by Routledge in March, 2019, The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept. He has edited a new book, Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the world write personal letters to candidates, which will be published. in Winter 2020. He has been on numerous editorial boards.
Ronnie Carmeli, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she works in private practice. She is a member of the TAICP (Tel Aviv Institution of Contemporary Psychoanalysis), where she also teaches in different programs. She also teaches in Levinsky College of Education. She is a member of The International Associoation for Relational
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Ronnie's research focuses on the space between philosophy of language and psychoanalytic theory. Her doctoral dissertation, written in Bar Ilan University, in the department of Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis, is titled: Paradox, Game and Language in Wittgenstein, Winnicott and Lacan. Among her publications (both in Hebrew and in English), her Paper entitled “To be Cut out of the Dead Mother” (2015), investigates linguistic, historical, and clinical aspects of Bion's term “Caesura.”
Doug Chavis, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, with training in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is a past director of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, served many years in APsaA's Executive Council and BOPS, and is the past Editor of The American Psychoanalyst. He also supervises, teaches and is currently on the faculty at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
Jing Chen, MD, PHD, is currently an associate professor of Traumatic Psychology at China University of Geosciences. She is also a certification supervisor of the China mental health association and associate chief psychiatrist, Director of the Psychological Depression Ward at Wuhan Mental Health Center, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China.
Rebecca Coleman Curtis, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University, and Faculty, W.A. White Institute in New York. She is author of Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis (Goethe Award Finalist). Editor of Self-Defeating Behaviors, The Relational Self, and Co-editor of Taboo or Not Taboo in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Goethe Award Winner, Gradiva Award Finalist), How People Change, On Deaths and Endings (Gradiva Award Winner),
Loneliness and Longing, Understanding and Coping with Failure, & Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Knowing and Not Knowing. Her book Belonging through a Psychoanalytic Lens is currently in press. Curtis has published numerous articles and given over 100 presentations around the world.
Loray Daws, PhD, clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist currently in private practice in British Columbia, Canada. He is founding member of the South African and British Columbia Masterson Institutes as well as a faculty member of the International Masterson Institute in New York where he completed a post-graduate training program in the disorders of the self. He has published articles on dreaming, psychosomatic disorders (burning mouth syndrome and eating disorders), and the disorders of the self in journals such as the International Journal of Psychotherapy, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, South African Rorschach Journal, and Clinical Counselling and Contemporary Psychotherapy. He has supervised and taught in South Africa, Canada, the United States, Australia, and Turkey, and he currently serves as Assistant Editor for the Global Journal of Health Sciences. He is also the editor of 4 books on psychoanalysis and existential analysis.
Jeffrey L. Eaton, MA, is a graduate and faculty member of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a member of the IPA. He received the Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture Prize in 2006 and has been the Beta Rank Memorial Lecturer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Margaret Jarvie Memorial Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and a presenter at The Tavistock, London. He has also been a frequent guest speaker at the International Frances Tustin Trust meetings as well as at International Bion meetings. In 2017 he was the International Guest Lecturer of the Australian Psychoanalytic Society in Melbourne. He was for over a decade Senior Consulting Child Psychotherapist for the Gunawirra Foundation in Sydney, Australia. He was also a founder of The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic, a project of The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. He is the author of A Fruitful Harvest: Essays after Bion, and several chapters in edited collections. Information about his writing and practice can be
found at . He provides consultation to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts around the world.
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD FIPA, is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist who has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is a full faculty member of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, of Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and of COR Northwest Family Development Center. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and of the book: Trauma & Primitive Mental States, An Object Relations Perspective. Her second book, Between the Real & The Imaginary is nearing completion. Dr. Eekhoff believes unrepresented and poorly represented states are amenable to psychoanalysis.
H. Shmuel Erlich, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst and former President and Chair of the Training Committee of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He was Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis (Emeritus) and Director of the Sigmund Freud Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He chaired the IPA Education Committee, served four terms as European Representative on the IPA Board, and is currently Chair of the IPA Institutional Issues Committee. He received the Sigourney Award in 2005. His publications span adolescent development and psychopathology, experiential dimensions of object relations, group and organizational processes, and two books: The Couch in the Marketplace: Psychoanalysis and Social Reality, and Fed with Tears, Poisoned with Milk. He is in private practice in Tel Aviv.
Henry Friedman, MD, Psychiatry Specialist in Cambridge, MA and has over 58 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from Johns Hopkins U. School of Medicine medical school in 1962. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, part-time, on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, with main interests in the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy. Friedman is also
Chair of the “Meet the Author” events at the Biannual Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
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 (2017–2019). She is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the AAPCSW. A Training and Supervising Analyst who teaches, lectures, and consults nationally and internationally on how to deepen psychoanalytic work, Hall is the author of: Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004) and Deepening the Treatment (1998) as well as journal 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 boards of , The American Psychoanalyst (TAP), International Journal of Controversial Discussions 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. Her website is:
Robert D. Hinshelwood, currently an emeritus professor of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus. He was previously: Clinical Director, The Cassel Hospital (1993–1997), Visiting Professor, Committee for Social Thought, University of Chicago (2002–2003). He is Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society, Fellow Royal College of Psychiatrists. His recent research interests and publications include the epistemology of psychoanalytic research; Bion Studies: The Shaping of his Paradigms (London: Routledge) (2013); and Research on the Couch: Subjectivity, Singles Cases, and Psychoanalytic Knowledge (London: Routledge) (2013).
David Jachim, PhD, FIPA, is a certified psychoanalyst in private practice located in Seattle. His experience includes clinical work in community mental health centers, university counseling centers and consultation to businesses. He is a Past President of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI) and currently serves as a board member for NPSI. He is also a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Dr. Jachim is the author of Analyze This!, a recurring column featured in the e-newsletter Selected Facts that is published by NPSI. Dr. Jachim's interests include psychoanalytic theory, psychoanalytic training and the application of psychoanalytic thought in the media and popular culture.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Fellow, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, Founder and Executive Director, Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (). She is Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Group Therapist, Psychoanalytic Training Analyst, and Senior Supervisor in Psychotrauma, Developmental Mourning, Grief, Self-sabotage, and Writing & Creative Blocks. Psychoanalytic Author & Theorist; 16 Awards for Psychoanalytic Writing, including 2004 Gradiva Award from NAAP.
Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor at Deakin University, Australia, where he previously held a Personal Chair in Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies. His publications include The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Sartre and RD Laing (Other Press 2003) and Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), numerous journal articles, book chapters, and edited collections. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies and Organizational and Social Dynamics, Editorial Advisor to Psychoanalysis and History and of this journal. He has lectured widely internationally. He founded the Annual Deakin University Freud Conference, which he directed for twenty years. He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Mark Leffert, MD, has been on the faculty of five psychoanalytic institutes and has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at four of them. He has taught, and supervised psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychiatrists for 50 years. He is the author of many papers and six books. He has been engaged in an interdisciplinary reformulation of clinical psychoanalysis drawing on phenomenology, neuroscience, network studies, and (among others), heuristics and biases. He is in private practice in Santa Barbara, California.
Henry Zvi Lothane, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Author of 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. NCPsyA, LP, 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 and a member of the Editorial Board The International Journal of Controversial Discussions. 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, 2019). Her two works of fiction, Streets 1970 (2015) and Necessary Voices (2019), were published by IPBooks.
Kerry Kelly Novick, FIPA, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst on the faculties of numerous psychoanalytic centers in the United States and the IPA. Formerly Chair, IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and President, Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Founder, Allen Creek Preschool. Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Has co-authored six books and many articles on various topics.
Cecilio Paniagua, MD, ScD., resides in his native Madrid (Spain) where he obtained his medical and doctoral degrees. Trained in Psychiatry (T. Jefferson College of Philadelphia) with a Fulbright scholarship. American Board Certified Psychiatrist. Psychoanalytic training at the Baltimore-Washington Institute. Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts. Member of the London Freudian Study Group. Honorary Professor of Universidad Autónoma (Madrid). He published over one hundred articles in the national and international psychoanalytic literature. Translator of four psychoanalytic textbooks. Author of the books, Técnica Psicoanalítica: Aportaciones de la Psicología del Yo, and Visiones de España: Reflexiones de un Psicoanalista.
Trevor Pederson, PsyaD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Laramie, Wyoming. Dr. Pederson is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Controversial Discussions and is the author of The Economics of Libido: Psychic Bisexuality, The Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex (Routledge, 2015), which won the Gradiva award for Best Book. His most recent book Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018) introduces both new psychoanalytic techniques for working with the body and a new methodology for interpreting film and literature.
Gunther Perdigao is a Training and Supervising analyst New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Institute. Board Certified in Adult and Child Psychiatry, Certified in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis, Associate Secretary IPA 1993-97, Secretary General IPA 2009-13, a Member of IPA Board 2017-present, and a Member IPA Executive Committee 2019-present.
Michael J. Poff, MA, MSW, Psychoanalyst, board member with the Carter-Jenkins Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Tampa, Florida. Trained as a psychoanalyst at the Carter-Jenkins Center Psychoanalytic Institute after receiving his MA in Cultural Anthropology from The University of Chicago and his MSW from the University of South Florida. Articles and recorded lectures on a variety of subjects can be viewed online including: Freud's anthropological theory; psychoanalytic psychotherapy of childhood anorexia and trauma; psychoanalytic literature/biography; applied psychoanalysis and creativity; the Freud was Right! Totem and Taboo lecture series on the debates in psychoanalysis and anthropology over Freud's theory of culture and the Oedipus complex. Founded Tampa Psychoanalytic Society's Art and the Psychoanalysis of Film series. Has been field instructor/supervisor and guest lecturer with University South Florida School of Social Work; guest lecturer at the USF College of Nursing, USF Department of Psychiatry, USF Department of Philosophy, USF Department of Women's Studies. He currently maintains private practice in adult psychoanalysis, child, adolescent and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy. For over a decade has provided teletherapy and internet-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy for clients at a distance.
Warren Procci, MD, became President-Elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2008–2010) and then President (2010–2012) following a decade of administrative participation in other capacities. He was President (1994–1996) and Dean (‘96-‘01) of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.. He's a Trustee (1999– present) and was Chair of the Board (2012–2020) of his alma mater, Wagner College, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with both USC and
UCLA and instructor and TA/Sa at New Center for Psychoanalysis and Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Procci began his long career at Wagner College, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in 1968. From there, he trained to become a doctor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before taking up a fellowship at the University of Southern California, he interned and did his residency in Madison. In 1984, Dr. Procci received his Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the Southern California Institute of Psychiatry in Beverly Hills and would later join the Institute as a faculty member, President, and member of the Education Committee and Board of Directors. He has held similar positions at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Tustin, California, and with the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He was a long term Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).
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.
David E. Scharff, MD, FABP is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Board Chair Emeritus, Founder and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China; and author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The Sexual Relationship, Object Relations Family Therapy (with Jill Savege Scharff), Object Relations Couple Therapy, The Interpersonal Unconscious, Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy, and Psychoanalysis in China.
Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP is Co-Founder and formerly Co-Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute; Founder and Supervising Analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University; Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with individuals, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland; author, editor, and series editor of many articles and books on object relations and psychoanalytic on-site and online education, several coauthored with David E. Scharff, and others on teleanalysis, most recently Psychoanalysis Online volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Nathan Szajnberg MD, attended the University of Chicago BA 1974, MD 1974. He was the Sigmund Freud Professor, the Hebrew University (2007–2010) and Wallerstein Research Professor (2005–2016). 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 Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development. He has written two novellas: JerusaLand and Breathless. His most recent paper is on Maimonides Technique in the Guide of the Perplexed and Freud's Irma Dream.
Yikun Wu, PhD, is a native of China and received her PhD in Birmingham, England. She has been a translator for both Anglo and French psychoanalysts.