Dr. Chasseguet-Smirgel was a leading French psychoanalyst, a training analyst. She was Freud Professor at the University College of London and Professor of Psychopathology at the University of Lille.

André Green studied medicine, specializing in psychiatry at Paris Medical and worked at several hospitals.

Described as a “psyschoanalysts’s psychoanalyst”, Betty Joseph is a distinguished psychoanalytic clinician who has been working with children and adults in full time analytic practice since the 1950s.

Jean Leplanche is a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. He is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud’s seduction theory and has written more than one dozen books on psychoanalytic theory.

Joseph Sandler received his master’s degree in psychology at age nineteen from the University of Cape Town. He moved to England in the late 1940s to further specialize in psychology and received his Ph.D.