Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., holds the position of Clinical Professor as a member of the Voluntary Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is a member of the honorary faculty at the Houston Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and the adjunct faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center. He retired from clinical practice as a senior staff psychologist after 40 years at The Menninger Clinic, where he taught and supervised fellows and residents; conducted psychotherapy, diagnostic consultations, and psychoeducational programs; and led research on clinical outcomes. He continues to teach, write, and consult. His books include Trusting in Psychotherapy, Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy, Mentalizing in Clinical Practice (with Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman), Coping with Trauma: From Self-Understanding to Hope, and Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope, all published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Additional books are Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma (Karnac) and Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders (Wiley).
Daniel S. Benveniste, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Sammamish, Washington, near Seattle. He is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Wuhan Mental Health Center, in the People's Republic of China and an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud's Totem and Taboo (2022), The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis (2015) and The Venezuelan Revolution: A Critique from the Left (2015). He is also the editor of Anna Freud in the Hampstead Clinic: Letters to Humberto Nágera (2015). He earned his BA (1976), MS (1979) and PhD (1990) in clinical psychology in the
San Francisco Bay Area and was in supervision with Nathan Adler, Ph.D., for five years. He began his private practice and teaching career in San Francisco. From 1999 to 2010, he lived and worked in Caracas, Venezuela, where he maintained a private practice and taught psychotherapy at two universities. In 2010 he relocated to the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Adriana Prengler, FIPA.
David E. Cooper, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dr. Cooper got his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from George Washington University. He did his psychoanalytic training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute (now the Washington Baltimore Institute), where he has been on the faculty for many years. He is past president of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and past founder and co-chair of the Center's Diversities Committee. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine. In the 90's he was at Chestnut Lodge Hospital, where he founded and directed a day hospital program for severe personality disorders.
J. Todd Dean, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in St. Louis, MO. He is currently the director of education at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, and has been on the editorial boards of JAPA and Division/Review. He is also a member of the Association for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Ireland. He has had various publications, mostly book reviews and brief essays, in Division/Review, JAPA and The American Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology.
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 of many journal articles and book chapters and three books about understanding the psychology of addiction as a compulsive behavior.
Dr. Dodes has been honored by the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School for “Distinguished Contribution” to the study and treatment of addictive behavior and has been elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He contributed the chapter “Sociopathy” to the recent bestselling book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.
Fred Gioia, M.D., is a board-certified adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Dallas, Texas. He is a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center and maintains a private practice specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He currently serves as Curriculum Chair for the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center and leads the Workshop Series for the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on Artificial Intelligence. He received his medical degree from Texas A&M Health Science Center and completed his residency in psychiatry at UT Southwestern. Dr. Gioia also holds a master's degree in applied cognition and neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas and completed his psychoanalytic training at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center.
Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA, former President of the Contemporary Freudian Society, past boards of the IPA, ApsaA, member AAPCSW. National and international lecturer; author of: The Power of Connection (2022) IPBooks; Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004) and Deepening the Treatment (1998), published by Jason Aronson; and other articles. On faculties of three NY institutes in the US and China. Member of the Tampa Bay Institute. Founder of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Jane created and was the first director of the Psychotherapy Track at CFS. A graduate of the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy, and the Contemporary Freudian Society-Institute, she speaks, teaches and consults nationally and internationally specializing in small group and individual supervision via Zoom.
M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D., graduated from Hacettepe University Medical Faculty and completed residency trainings in adult psychiatry at Hacettepe and Medical College of Wisconsin. He had a four-year fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center and graduated from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as an adult psychoanalyst. He was faculty at Hacettepe, UMass, and Baylor. He is currently faculty and former President of the Board at Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Visiting Professor at Tongji Medical College, China. He also has faculty position at Psychoanalytic Institute for Central Asia, Kazakhstan. In the last 40 years, he maintained a dual interest in clinical care and teaching while directing various clinical organizations. He taught, published and presented in a wide range of national and international forums. His most recent role was as the Medical Director of Professionals Program at the Menninger Clinic. All through these years he also had a small private practice on the sides. Since 2022, he mainly works in his private practice and is involved in clinical work, teaching, lecturing, writing and supervision. Some of his current areas of interest are pedagogy of psychoanalytic training, ego capacities of the mind, the central role of language in understanding the mind, and the controversial/creative subjects in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Luba Kessler, M.D. is a psychiatrist trained in classical psychoanalysis, practicing in Long island City, New York. Among influences on her professional thought, practice, teaching and writing are: demographic and linguistic multiculturalism spanning life from the Soviet sphere to the diversity of America; interest in sociopolitical geography/history and study of Freudian metapsychology and neuropsychoanalysis. All have combined into a concentric view of psychological life of body/psyche in the surround of family, community, society, and culture at large.
Rona Knight, Ph.D., is one of the seminal thinkers and researchers in the domain of development in psychoanalysis. Dr. Knight's groundbreaking longitudinal study on children's psychic development during middle
childhood (PSC 2005, 2011) demonstrated that concepts like nonlinear development and dynamic systems theory offer a more effective framework for understanding development than traditional psychoanalytic theories. Dr. Knight is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst; assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; and a faculty member and child supervisor at BPSI. She is on the board of the Anna Freud Foundation and on the editorial board of JAPA. She is a Senior Editor of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Dr. Knight has published and presented papers on child development, nonlinear dynamic systems theory, gender and clinical child psychoanalysis. In 2003 she won the Albert Solnit Award for her PSC paper on narrative building in child psychoanalysis.
David Lichtenstein, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. He is a Faculty and Board Member of Pulsion Institute, NY, and a Faculty Member at the NYU Post Doc. Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, IPTAR, PINC, and the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. He is co-editor of the recent book The Lacan Tradition (Routledge, 2018) and teaches an independent course entitled The Clinical Implications of the Work of Jacques Lacan. He was the Founding Editor of DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, a Co-Founder of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, and a participant at Das Unbehagen.
Mark F. Poster, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its medical school. During that time, he spent a year at University College London and a summer at The Neurologic Institute at Queen Square. He then trained in internal medicine, medical oncology, and psychiatry, all at Tufts Medical Center. During that time, he was a senior medical resident at Boston City Hospital. His psychoanalytic training was at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE). Dr. Poster served for 50 years at the Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare System, first on the medical staff at Jamaica Plain, and then on the psychiatry staff at Brockton. He also served for 5 years as director of geriatric psychiatry at Charles River Hospital in Wellesley, MA and for 12 years as
psychiatric consultant at Campion Center, a Jesuit residence, in Weston, MA. He had a private practice in West Newton, MA for 58 years. Dr. Poster's main interests have been medical history, mind/body relationships, trauma, psychotherapy integration, and recovery. His publications include the biography of Georg Groddeck, a German physician and pioneer of psychosomatic medicine; the friendship between Groddeck and Sandor Ferenczi, a pioneer of psychoanalysis; thoughts on war; psychotherapy integration, including the introduction of the “shaving brush model”. Dr. Poster had teaching appointments at Harvard Medical School (Assistant Professor) and Boston University Medical School (Instructor) while teaching psychiatry residents at the Brockton VA for 45 years. Now retired from clinical practice, Dr. Poster teaches Fellows at the PINE Psychoanalytic Society of New England and serves on the editorial boards of several psychoanalytic journals.
Francisco Somarriva Pinto, MSW, MSc, is a Chilean psychoanalyst and licensed clinical social worker. He works at the Outpatient Psychiatry Department of Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston and in private practice. He received the professional title of psychologist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and his MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies from University College London, United Kingdom. Then, he underwent his psychoanalytic training at the Institute of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association and is an associated member of that society. Mr. Somarriva has also collaborated in different roles for Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing—PEP-Web, and was a member of the IPA Communications Committee while being a psychoanalyst-in-training. Finally, he is the Volume 6 co-editor and Glossary editor of The Complete Works of Donald W. Winnicott translation into Spanish.