Rene Roussillon’s summation of his work.

Dr. Dupont’s work has significantly benefited humanity through her pivotal role in the “Ferenczi renaissance” and the development of her own techniques, practices and training.

One of Dr. Haydée Faimberg's main interests lies in exploring the way that one culture understands how another culture addresses essential psychoanalytic problems.

A renowned author and lecturer, editor and influential researcher of the history of psychoanalytic ideas, Dr. de Mijolla conceived and has directed and edited an authoritative Dictionnaire International de a Pysychanalyse in French and now in English.

The Association seeks to provide as complete an understanding of psychoanalysis and its founder, including (1) the history of the discovery of psychoanalysis,;(2) the biography of Freud, his relatives, his disciples and psychoanalysts who have succeeded; (3) the history of the psychoanalytic movement since its origin, including international developments through its major divisions or branches; (4) the place of psychoanalysis in the history of science and ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and (5) the relationship of psychoanalysis with the general history and the political, socio-economic and cultural conditions of the time.

Joyce McDougall is a brilliant psychoanalytic clinician and educator whose many books have found widespread reception because of her elegant linkage of French psychoanalysis with the British and American tradition as well as her creative application of psychoanalytic theory to the understanding of patients with psychosomatic illness and perversion.

Jean-Bertrand Pontalis was born in 1924 in Paris. A student of Jean Paul Sartre, he collaborated on the review Les Temps Modernes (1946-1948).

Daniel Widlocher’s pioneering work contributed significantly to both clinical and theoretical knowledge through his unquenchable curiosity and willingness to reach beyond the psychoanalytic discipline.

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.

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.

Didier Anzieu, a French psychoanalyst, a professor of psychology, and a gifted teacher was born in 1923 and died in 1999.

Serge Lebovici , professor emeritus of child psychiatry, was a mainstay in psychoanalysis in France for many years.