Jacob Arlow was a unique and legendary figure in the International and North American psychoanalytic communities in the second half of the twentieth century.

Described as a man for all seasons, Harold P. Blum is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical enter.

Dr. Kernberg was born in Vienna and fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1939, emigrating to Chile where he where he studied medicine, psychiatry and then psychoanalysis with the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society.

The New Orleans Psychoanalytic Society was organized in October of 1953 and accepted as a Constituent Society by the American Psychoanalytic Association in May of 1955.

Margaret Mahler’s innovative theory of child development impacted psychoanalytically informed child rearing as her Separation-Individuation theory began to be applied to the rearing of children in families and daycare programs.