Marvin Margolis is clinical associate professor of psychology at Wayne State University, Training and Supervising Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and has served as Chairman of the Board of Professional Standards and also President of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Howard Shevrin’s work interdisciplinary and pioneering work explored the territory where neurobiology, thoughts, emotions, and behavior meet.

Despite many differences among the founders of the White Institute, they agreed upon a humanistic concern to alleviate suffering, a fervent commitment to psychoanalysis as a response to human pain, a pro-active political stance toward redefining social structures to support individualism and personal freedom, and an abiding interest in the manifold interactions between individuals and their interpersonal environment.

In addition to his Role as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Jorge Canestri specializes in linguistics and epistemology.

Dr. de Mijolla's significant achievement was conceiving, directing, and editing the authoritative Dictionnaire International de la Psychanalyse, published in both French and English.

Terttu Eskelinen de Folch’s made outstanding contributions to the evolution of psychoanalytic thought, earning recognition as one of the most remarkable thinkers in the Kleinian tradition.

This is a joint award recognizing the joint contribution of “senior” (Thomä) and “junior” (Kächele) to the field of psychoanalysis. Both have made very important contributions.

Dr. Sverre Varvin’s work on human rights and his publications on ethnic cleansing and the psychology of refugees and torture victims is an extraordinary example of applied analysis to social issues.

Doo-Young Cho is professor of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and Senior Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

César Garza-Guerrero is a psychoanalyst trained at the Menninger Foundation and is head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University Hospital, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.

This institute was named for Han Groen-Prakken, a psychoanalyst in Amsterdam who has worked tirelessly with Eastern European colleagues and who, with others, have laid the foundation for psychoanalysis in that region.

Sara Zac de Filc received an MS in Psychology from Bank Street College of New York in 1955 and her M.D., with honors, from Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1972.

The Eisenstein-Gabe Research Training Fund of Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute was established in 1970 and it is named after Samuel Eisenstein and Sigmund Gabe. 

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.

Riccardo Steiner was born and educated in Italy before moving to England in the 1970s to do his training in psychoanalysis.

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.

“In my clinical practice, supervision, and teaching of psychoanalysis my aim is to further not only the alleviation of patients' symptoms and distress but to foster access to an autonomy that can come gradually from an experiential and cognitive understanding of how their minds work….

Dr. Arnold Richards was Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) from 1994 to 2003 and before that he was an editor of TAP.