Right from his beginnings in the mid-Seventies as professor of psychology (University of Turin) and from 1984 as psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (I.P.A.), Franco Borgogno Ph.D., full Professor in Clinical Psychology and Training and Supervising Analyst, has increasingly focused his theoretical and clinical endeavors on the exploration of the relevance of the psychic environment (both parental and analytic environment) as a key factor of health and illness.

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre.

Jean-Michel Quinodoz’s multifaceted work was recognized for his significant contributions to expanding access to and understanding of psychoanalysis on an international scale.

Rolf Sandell (b. 1938) is professor (emeritus) of clinical psychology, University of Linköping, Sweden.