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.

Dr. de Mijolla's significant achievement was conceiving, directing, and editing the authoritative Dictionnaire International de la Psychanalyse, published in both French and 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’s brilliant work as a psychoanalytic clinician and educator left a lasting mark on the understanding of psychosomatic illness and perversion through her innovative application of psychoanalytic theory.

Jean-Bertrand Pontalis' work included a foundational contribution to the field of psychoanalysis in 1967 with the publication of The Language of Psychoanalysis, co-authored with Jean Laplanche. The work became an essential reference — a rigorous mapping of psychoanalytic concepts that has remained indispensable to clinicians and theorists alike.

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.