Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the United States in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.

Lawrence Friedman was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He attended the University of Chicago (Ph.B, M.A.), received M.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, did Psychiatry Residency at the Yale University Graduate School of Medicine, and worked as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Hospital , Yokosuka, Japan.

Thomas Ogden’s contributions to psychoanalysis have spanned a wide range of subjects including.

Stuart W. Twemlow was born and raised in New Zealand where he received his medical degree (M.B.Ch.B.). Dr Twemlow has a strong Maori heritage. His canoe ( waka), is Tainui, iwi (tribe), is Maniapoto. and hapu, ( sub-tribe or extended family), is Ngati Patupo, who were highly skilled in warfare and were King Tawhiao’s bodyguards.