Dr. Ilse Grubrich-Simities’ original and thought-provoking work created a broader and more nuanced understanding of Freud’s contributions. She meticulously analyzed the history of psychoanalytic thinking, particularly the early developments of Freud’s ideas.

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.

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.

In addition to her own contributions concerning psychoanalysis in patients of middle years and older, Pearl King has been a strong factor in administration as well as in maintaining a delicate balance between factions that have been less than cordial to each.