Himanshu Agrawal, M.D., DFAPA was born in New Delhi and spent his childhood living with his family in Bangladesh, London, Moscow, and Nepal. Himanshu emigrated to USA in 2002 to pursue training in child psychiatry. He is a newly minted psychoanalyst and was Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute's first-ever long-distance candidate. Over half of Himanshu's personal/training analysis has been conducted long distance. He has served on APsA's board of directors, and as the president of the APsA candidates' council. He is the editor of the book ‘Dear Institute…‘ (which is a global commentary on psychoanalytic training).
Himanshu lives in Milwaukee, and as an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he sees patients, conducts research, and teaches psychotherapists, pharmacy students, medical students, advance practice providers and physicians. He enjoys a wide array of topics, however his area of academic interest lies in psychodynamic psychiatry, psychoanalysis, wellbeing, burnout and stigma.
Lance Dodes, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, member of the faculty of the New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) and retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or senior author of many journal articles and book chapters about the psychology of compulsive and addictive behavior, and author of three books on the topic. He contributed the chapter “Sociopathy” to the recent bestselling book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he and his wife moved from Boston to be near their grandchildren.
Henry J. Friedman, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who trained in medicine at the Johns Hopkins school of medicine and at the Harvard Medical School program in psychiatry. He has been in the private practice of psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy since 1980 and has been an associate professor of psychiatry at both Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools. His main focus has been on the need for critical reappraisal of both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He is particularly concerned about incompatibilities involved in different psychoanalytic theories and the failure to question some of the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis that have been treated as received wisdoms, not to be questioned. He has reviewed over 70 psychoanalytic books from an independent critical perspective.
Dale Gody, Ph.D., FABP, is a faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. She teaches relational theory, psychoanalysis and feminism, and case report writing. Currently she resides in Salt Lake City where she maintains a practice of adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and couples therapy.
Edward Nersessian, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weil Cornell Medical School. Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute/Society Director, The Helix Center for Multidisciplinary Studies.
Deana Schuplin, LMHC, FABP has been immersed in clinical work since 1982. She completed a psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center in the late 1990's. In 2005 she entered psychoanalytic training there before transferring to the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute in 2006 when she moved with her husband for a job opportunity to Des Moines, Iowa.
Ms. Schuplin completed psychoanalytic training in 2012, became nationally certified in adult psychoanalysis in 2017 and was appointed as a Training and Supervising Analyst by the GKCPI in 2020. She has a private practice in Des Moines, Iowa.
Neal Spira, M.D. is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Director at Large for APsaA. He is past president of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and a former Dean of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is currently a training and supervising analyst. Dr. Spira has written on a variety of applied psychoanalytic topics including the way psychoanalysis interfaces with religion, politics and public health. He currently writes a blog “Understanding Backwards” on the Substack platform.
Bhaskar Sripada, M.D., a practicing psychoanalyst since 1980 and a faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis since 1995, resides and practices in Chicago. He has authored several psychoanalytic papers and a memoir, When Suicide Beckons, which details his countertransference experience treating a depressed patient. Along with many contemporary analysts, he believes that both the patient and analyst are active participant observers and, therefore, in this book, he provides details of the ongoing transference-countertransference of the analytic process. Accordingly, he has detailed evoked his ongoing emotions, thoughts, childhood memories, life experiences, and analytic training that shaped his technique and responsiveness to the patient, thus helping the reader appreciate the complexity and depth of psychoanalytic treatment.