Daniel S. Benveniste, PhD, 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) and edited IJCD: International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume 3, Issue One.
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.
Christina Biedermann, PsyD, ABAP, is an Associate Professor at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at National Louis University as well as a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is also Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and an Associate Editor for the Book Review of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In addition, she reviews for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and has presented at national conferences on menopause, working with complex trauma, suicidality, treatment resistance, psychological assessment, and feminist advocacy, as well as lectured at the Yale Child
Study Center, the Yale-Riggs Family and Infant Mental Health training program, and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Her current academic interests include: reproductive psychology and justice, motherhood and maternal subjectivity, women's mental health, complex trauma, psychodynamic theory and psychotherapy, and education and training in psychodynamic psychology.
Thomas DePrima, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in practice in Manhattan. He received his AB in Biology at Harvard University and then his MD from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He completed his adult psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai and completed psychoanalytic training at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He continues to be a member at NYPSI serving on the faculty and on various committees. He is currently the associate medical director of the World Trade Center Mental Health Program at Mount Sinai, a program set up by the Federal Government to treat 9/11 responders who would go on to develop medical issues as a consequence of their rescue and recovery work. Earlier in his life, he was an accomplished percussionist. He performed in 35 countries as a member of the Long Island Youth Orchestra, an organization that he now serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors. He also performed in musical segments on two episodes of Sesame Street as a child in 1997.
Carolyn Ellman, PhD, Graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Fellow and Faculty-Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) Adjunct Clinical Professor and Supervisor NYU. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Training and Supervising Analyst Contemporary Freudian Society; Member of IPA and CIPS; Senior Editor of The Modern Freudians: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique by Jason Aronson in 2000 and Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable. Self published by Jason Aronson in 1997; Co-Editor A New Freudian Synthesis: Clinical Process in a new generation by Karnac Books 2011 (with Andrew Druck,
Norbert Freedman and Aaron Thaler). Author of many articles on Envy in women. Recipient of the Doris Bernstein Memorial Lecture IPTAR, Honorary Fingert Lecture St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and the Norbert Freedman Memorial Lecture at IPTAR. In private practice in New York.
Giselle Galdi, PhD was the Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis for 25 years, one of the oldest psychoanalytic journals in the US, founded by Karen Horney in 1941. The AJP is celebrating its 85th year of continuous publication in 2025, the year Giselle stepped down as Editor in Chief. During her editorship the AJP published many Special Issues and articles, dedicated to Ferenczi's legacy.
She is Training and Supervising Analyst and former Director of Training at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, which was established in 1941 by Karen Horney, and is the second oldest training institute in the New York Metropolitan area. She was also the Director of the Trauma Treatment Center of the renowned Karen Horney Clinic for many years.
An important aspect of Giselle's work is her 35–year involvement with the Ferenczi revival. She introduced the formal teaching of Ferenczi into the curriculum of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1995 and taught the course for many years. Giselle is on the Board of Directors of the Sándor Ferenczi Center of the New School in NYC, she is a Program Committee Member of the International Sándor Ferenczi Conferences and is on the Board of Directors of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN). ().
The next International Sándor Ferenczi Conference will be held in Madrid from October 14 to 17, 2026. ().
She is also one of the editors of the recently announced project of the ISFN to issue an updated edition of Ferenczi's works, “The Network Edition of the Writings of Sándor Ferenczi.”
Dr. Galdi is in private practice in New York City.
M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD, 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.
Merle Molofsky, MFA, NCPsyA, is a New York State-licensed psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Review, of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Controversial Discussions, and of the Advisory Council of the Harlem Family Institute (HFI). Her play, Kool-Aid, was produced at Lincoln Center. Her publications include a novel, Streets 1970; a collection of short fiction, Necessary Voices; a collection of poetry, Sh'ma, I Hear Voices; and an edited book, Jew Hating: The Black Milk of Civilization, all published by IPBooks. She also has contributed chapters to several psychoanalytic books, has published several other collections of her poetry, and numerous articles. She received the Gradiva Award in
Poetry in 2012 from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). In the past, she served as Dean of Training at NPAP, as Director of Education at the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), and as Editor of the online psychoanalytic journal Other/Wise. She received her psychoanalytic education at NPAP, and has served on the faculties of the Training Institute of NPAP, the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), and the Harlem Family Institute (HFI).
Adriana Prengler, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a clinical psychologist who trained at the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society in Venezuela and later emigrated to the United States (Seattle) in 2010. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI) and at the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society (SCP). She is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Wuhan Mental Health Center, in China.
She has published articles in English and Spanish on immigration, identification, loss, mourning and the influence of cultural differences on the psyche. She has presented these ideas in adult and child clinical case presentations, and film interpretations.
She served as vice-president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 2021–2025 and many other positions in FEPAL and the IPA including founding Chair of the IPA Candidates' Loan Panel, the IPA Psychoanalysts' Emigration and Relocation Committee (PERC) and she created the IPA Committee for Psychoanalysts assistance in Crisis and Emergencies (PACE).
She maintains a private practice with adults, couples, adolescents and children in Sammamish, Washington, near Seattle.
Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD, is a psychoanalyst 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 education at the University of Chicago introduced her to the dialogues of Plato. That gave her a sense of what she now think of as her calling. Talking with people who are willing to learn her truth and teach her theirs has been the theme of her professional life. Psychoanalysis gave her her voice and focused her listening. It made excellent use of her curiosity and her love for teaching others. She especially enjoy conversations with ancient authors, feeling like a time traveler in conversation with the past.