Dr. Kancyper’s outstanding work focused on generational confrontation and the opportunity to clarify fundamental metapsychological and clinical questions at a nodal point in which diverse and fundamental issues converge for psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Dr. Maldonado’s work was focused on the states of impasse and on the participation of the analyst in the stagnation of the psychoanalytic process.

Dr. Nosek’s work was recognized for outstanding institutional and clinical work and the application of psychoanalysis to culture, politics, and art.

Dr. Ronald Britton’s work was immensely creative and deeply rooted in everyday clinical situations. His profound understanding of Freud, Klein and Bion combined with his passion for literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, linguistics, and neuroscience, greatly informed 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.

Mr. Symington’s work features independent thinking that offers a counterpoint to various schools of established thought regarding narcissism and the source of mental illness.

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 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’s contributions to psychoanalysis have spanned a wide range of subjects including.

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.

Emanuel Berman was born in Warsaw in 1946, and came to Israel in 1950. He studied clinical psychology at Tel Aviv University, and received his PhD from Michigan State University in 1973.

Dr. Eizirik is a training and supervisor analyst from the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society and Adjunct professor of the Department of Psychiatry of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Ms. Puget’s work explored the difficulties related to dealing with the otherness of the other as distinct from conflicts deriving from identification.

Dr. Solms is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and for his attempts to introduce psychoanalytic methods and theories into contemporary neuroscience.

Right from his beginnings in the mid-Seventies as professor of psychology (University of Turin) and from 1984 as psychoanalyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (I.P.A.), Franco Borgogno Ph.D., full Professor in Clinical Psychology and Training and Supervising Analyst, has increasingly focused his theoretical and clinical endeavors on the exploration of the relevance of the psychic environment (both parental and analytic environment) as a key factor of health and illness.

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre.

Jean-Michel Quinodoz’s multifaceted work was recognized for his significant contributions to expanding access to and understanding of psychoanalysis on an international scale.

Rolf Sandell (b. 1938) is professor (emeritus) of clinical psychology, University of Linköping, Sweden.

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.