Siri Hustvedt, PhD, 2025
Dr. Siri Hustvedt’s extraordinary work mines rich seams in psychoanalysis, literature, and culture and has significantly advanced the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis in current intellectual and cultural discourse.
ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, 2025
Brilliantly curated and edited, ROOM is a global and free digital forum and platform that has illuminated and forged new connections between psychoanalysis and the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues facing the contemporary world.
Jack Drescher, MD, 2022
Dr. Drescher’s pioneering award-winning work in the areas of gender and sexuality has brought innovation to psychoanalytic treatment and theory--specifically, major, critical re-thinking based on solid scientific evidence and what is actually known rather than outdated assumptions about gender and sexuality.
Dorothy Holmes, PhD, 2022
Dr. Holmes’ groundbreaking work examined race within psychoanalysis, observing that race is an essential lens for psychoanalytic understanding because racism has endemic intrapsychic and cultural effects, including traumatic ones.
Edward Tronick, PhD, 2022
Dr. Tronick’s seminal work focused on the concept of repair of relational disruptions as a major change process in psychological development and the healing of psychological illness, elaborating on his original model of mutual regulation.
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, 2020
Dr. Gherovici’s work with marginalized communities began with Latinx and expanded to include gender and sexual variant people.
Anton Oscar Kris, MD, 2020 (1934 - 2021)
Dr. Kris’ work has helped to sustain and grow Freud’s theories in an age that has misunderstood and challenged Freud’s relevance, while at the same time providing leadership in a careful reconsideration of them.
Henri Parens, MD, 2019 (1929 - 2022)
Dr. Paren’s innovative research and educational approach to the understanding and treatment of aggression, is highly significant and has contributed to the public good.
Rosemary Balsam, MD, 2018
Dr. Balsam’s work represents an original psychoanalytic theory that refocuses analysis on a future that is alert to neuroscience, culture and inevitably, the equality of women.
Theodore Jacobs, MD, 2018
Dr. Jacobs’ work introduced the concept of enactment in psychoanalysis and illustrates its key role in the analytic process.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP), 2018
The Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc. through its journal, book and video archive has created a unique and comprehensive database to support psychoanalytic study and scholarship and made it available to professionals and students worldwide.
Jay Greenberg, PhD, 2015
Dr. Greenberg’s work has focused on creating conversations among analysts working within different conceptual, institutional, and geographic traditions, and participating in those conversations.
Vamık D. Volkan, MD, 2015
Dr. Volkan’s work and research has focused on a new vision of global diplomacy—the application of psychoanalytic thinking between countries and cultures, individual and societal mourning, transgenerational transmissions of trauma and the therapeutic approach to primitive mental states.
Salman Akhtar, MD, 2012
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, MD, 2012
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, MD, 2012
Thomas Ogden’s contributions to psychoanalysis have spanned a wide range of subjects including.
Stuart Twemlow, MD, 2012 (1941-2022)
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.
Arnold M. Cooper, MD, 2009 (1930-2011)
Dr. Cooper is the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.
Richard C. Friedman, MD, 2009
Richard C. Friedman combines the commitments and superb clinical skills of a psychoanalyst psychiatrist with those of a researcher/clinician.