Salem Eid Al-Arjani, PhD
Dr. Al-Arjani’s cutting-edge work, conducted amid ongoing war in Gaza, has redefined resilience as the capacity to imagine, find meaning, and stay connected while danger continues, building a new framework for psychoanalytic treatment of trauma at its most extreme frontiers.
Paula Christian-Kliger, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Christian-Kliger’s extraordinary interdisciplinary work has forged a model that fuses psychoanalysis with art and Buddhist practice, changing not only individual lives but how organizations and communities’ function, and fostering honest dialogue across race, culture, and difference.
Juan-Eduardo Tesone, MD, PhD
Dr. Tesone’s pioneering work has confronted actual incest and child sexual abuse, a subject psychoanalysis long kept at a distance and translated that understanding into a prevention program protecting schoolchildren in Argentina.
University College London Psychoanalysis Unit
The UCL Psychoanalysis Unit’s groundbreaking work has put psychoanalytic ideas to rigorous scientific testing, developing effective treatments for some of the hardest-to-treat patients while preserving the depth that makes them psychoanalytic.