Professor Vittorio Lingiardi’s pioneering work in psychodynamic diagnosis and LGBTQ+ issues demonstrates an ability to bridge the gap between the richness and complexity of psychoanalytical clinical practice and the need for empirical soundness.

Professor Rosine Perelberg’s open-minded work coalesces psychoanalytic thought and social anthropology expertise to offer a forward-looking framework for the understanding of temporality, sexuality, and antisemitism.

Professor Daniel Pick’s engaging and interdisciplinary work has investigated how psychoanalytic thought has been mobilized to face some of the most dire political challenges of modern times.

Dr. Virginia Ungar’s leading-edge work in “the feminine,” and in child, adolescent, and adult analysis, coupled with her leadership achievements in transforming current and future psychoanalytic training have significantly impacted the future of psychoanalysis.

Dr. Civitarese’s innovative award-winning work has primarily focused on such themes as elaboration of Bion’s thought, the development of post-Bionian models and analytic field theory. His work extended Bion’s reformulation of the concept of “hallucinosis” in a way that deciphers and transforms this difficult Bionian concept into comprehensible psychoanalytic technique.

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major, critical re-thinking based on solid scientific evidence and what is actually known rather than outdated assumptions about gender and sexuality.

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.

Professor Lemma’s inventive theoretical and clinical contributions address contemporary issues such as body modifications, transgender identities, and the impact of new digital technologies on the mind and body, especially applied in youth mental health.

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.

The nonprofit Erikson Institute’s award-winning work demonstrates a commitment to, and investment in providing public and professional education about psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline and an applied theory for understanding human experience.

The award-winning work of Drs. David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff adapts psychoanalysis for those far from a psychoanalytic center and educating analysts to address remote treatment needs.

Dr. Jorge Ulnik’s award-winning work focused on psychosomatic and psychodermatology exemplifies efforts to address the mind-body relationship from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Dr. Gherovici’s work with marginalized communities began with Latinx and expanded to include gender and sexual variant people.

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.

The pioneering work of Dr. Morales addressed the lack of institutional psychoanalytic work aimed at low-income people in Mexico and illustrates how intersecting psychotherapy and activism can help survivors of violence and their families.

The South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPA) is a nonprofit organization that has dramatically increased the reach of psychoanalytic thought and psychoanalysis for people with histories of apartheid, racism, and trauma in South Africa.

Dr. Gullestad’s work as a researcher, theoretician and educator in Norway, and powerful public voice, is highly significant and has contributed to the public good. 

Dr. Moguillansky’s work in developing and expanding psychoanalysis throughout Latin America is highly significant and has contributed to the public good.

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.

Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities’ unique and groundbreaking approach is highly significant in its application of psychoanalysis to traumatized populations for the public good. 

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.

Dr. Jacobs’ work introduced the concept of enactment in psychoanalysis and illustrates its key role in the analytic process.

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.

Dr. Altmann de Litvan’s work has focused on building bridges between systematic psychoanalytic research and clinic research.

Dr. Cassorla’s groundbreaking work delves deep into the technical components of the analytical process with patients who are difficult to reach and have deficits in their symbolization capacity.

Dr. Moreno’s work is well-represented by his book, How We Became Human: A Challenge to Psychoanalysis which asks the question, what distinguishes human beings from other animals.

Ms.  Kogan’s work focused on the transmission of trauma from Holocaust survivors to the following generations, and her approach to understanding and treating patients.

Leuzinger-Bohleber, is director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, professor em. for psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel.

Rene Roussillon’s summation of his work.

Dr. Steiner’s work focused on conceptions of the "pathological organization" or the "psychic retreat" between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions. 

Dr. Greenberg’s work has focused on creating conversations among analysts working within different conceptual, institutional, and geographic traditions, and participating in those conversations.

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.

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.

Ronald Britton ran a regular post-graduate seminar during the 1990s in Frankfurt, and between 2002 and 2008 in New York

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 is a psychoanalyst working in full-time private practice in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a Training Analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

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

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 combines the commitments and superb clinical skills of a psychoanalyst psychiatrist with those of a researcher/clinician.

Work details coming soon.Warren Poland is an outstanding thinker whose contributions have focused both on the psychoanalytic process and the application of psychoanalytic thought to broad cultural issues.

1930-2009

Trained in both Argentina and the United States, Dr. Aslan has studied with many of the great psychoanalytic minds of our time. Dr. Aslan was able to absorb and integrate their contributions to psychoanalysis during the past half-century, ultimately making his own contributions to psychoanalytic thought that were exemplary in their depth, vigor, and originality.

1930-2017

Ms. Baranger is considered one of the most important figures in psychoanalysis in both Argentina and Uruguay.

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and researcher, Dr. Doidge delivered a revolutionary message in his book The Brain that Changes Itself.

The Sándor Ferenczi Society, founded September 12, 1988 in Budapest, has reestablished the tradition of Ferenczi and the Budapest School of psychoanalysis.

Dr. Bohleber has devoted much of his considerable energy to a particular range of topics: trauma in both the individual and wider social sense, terrorism, right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and the consequences of the particular history with the Nazi era of German National Socialism.

For almost 30 years Dr. Ferro has been a psychoanalytic leader, making major contributions to literature, lecturing, and teaching throughout the world and building bridges between psychoanalysis and the scientific and university communities.

Dr. Haynal is an outstanding, internationally acclaimed author, lecturer, and analytic educator.

A superb speaker and teacher, Mr. Tuckett has published, in addition to his psychoanalytic articles, copious analytically informed studies on medical sociology and economics.

Sidney Blatt is a rare combination of talented clinical analyst, leading empirical researcher, and integrative personality theorist. 

Anchored in self-psychology and a major force in its development, Dr. Goldberg is one of the most prolific writers in the field.

Dr. Levenson, following Freud’s example, has explored diverse areas, particularly redefining the boundaries between the personal unconscious and the social and political worlds.

1920-2009

Dr. Doi was well known in Japan as a psychoanalyst and author of the book Anatomy of Dependence, a creative analysis of the Japanese personality first published in Japan in 1971.

Prof. Shmuel Erlich held the Sigmund Freud Chair in Psychoanalysis and was director of the Sigmund Freud Center for Study and Research in Psychoanalysis (1992-2005), and Clinical Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University.

Prof. Gampel has been in the forefront of integrating psychoanalytic theory and practice and emphasizing the centrality of psychoanalytic understanding of trauma in all cultures and countries.

Dr. Taylor has spent the major portion of his academic career working at the interface of psychoanalysis and medicine.

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

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.

Terttu Eskelionen de Folch, who was born in Finland, has made an outstanding contribution in the development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Spain.

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.

1941-2010

Dr. Greenspan is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics George Washington University Medical School and Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute as well as Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders.

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.

Howard Shevrin has been described by Robert Wallerstein (Sigourney Award recipient in 1991) as a “pioneering member of an all too small cadre of empirical researchers” in psychoanalysis.

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.

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 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).

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

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. 

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.

Arthur Valenstein is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and at Harvard Medical School and maintains specialties in neurology and psychiatry.

Dr. Ellias Mallet de Rocha Barros is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the Sao Paulo Pyscho-Analytical Society, member of the Faculty of the Institute of Sao Paulo Psycho-Analytical Society, and a full member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society.

Ricardo Bernardi is a full professor the Univeridad de la Republica, Uruguay and Head of the Department of Medical Psychology in the faculty of Medicine. He has served as part of the national committee that designed the national program for mental health in Uruguay.

Dr. Etchegoyan studied medicine at the National College of the Universidad Nacional de la Plata and began his psychoanalytic training in Argentina.

Dr. Lester was a professor of psychiatry on the faculty of medicine at McGill University, a training and supervising analyst with the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, and editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalsis

Daniel Widlocher is a highly respected professor of psychiatry, doctor of psychology, and psychoanalyst.

Anne-Marie Sandler is an analyst in private practice and a training analyst in adult, adolescent and child analysis at the British Psychoanalytic Society.

The Menninger Clinic is an international facility for mental health treatment education, research, and prevention.

Jacqueline Amati Mehler has made an important contribution to psychoanalysis in the realm of language and symbolization.

This annual conference was instituted by the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1990.

A practicing and teaching psychoanalyst, Ilse Grubrich-Simities has been described as the most outstanding Freud scholar within the German psychoanalytic community.

The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research is a leader in psychoanalytic education, research, and training.

Martin Bergmann is clinical professor of psychology of the New York University post-doctoral program, where he teaches the course on the history of psychoanalysis. He is a training analyst and supervisor of psychoanalysis at the New York Freudian Society.

Lester Luborsky is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Duke University.

Dr. Ostow was one of the first and foremost clinicians to develop a constructive and synergistic relationship between psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology.

Leonard Shengold is a training analyst at New York University Psychoanalytic Institute and a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical School.

Initially trained as a pediatrician, Albert Solnit completed his psychiatry training at Yale and became the first traininee in child psychiatry

Jorge L. Ahumada is a member of the Argentine Pyschoanalytic Association and an honorary member of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

Dr. Lussier is an outstanding psychoanalytic theoretician, educator, and clinician.

Rafael Moses has distinguished himself in the application of psychoanalytic theory to the study of prejudice and intergroup conflict.

Dr. Rosenfeld is one of the leading psychoanalytic theoreticians and clinicians of South America and has for many years pioneered in the psychoanalytic study of psychosis and addictions. His text on the psychoanalysis of these patients is an outstanding contribution to the field.

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.

Described as a “psyschoanalysts’s psychoanalyst”, Betty Joseph is a distinguished psychoanalytic clinician who has been working with children and adults in full time analytic practice since the 1950s.

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.

Joseph Sandler received his master’s degree in psychology at age nineteen from the University of Cape Town. He moved to England in the late 1940s to further specialize in psychology and received his Ph.D.

The work and subsequent success of the CDRom Project (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) began with a proposal, conceived and originated by Paul Mosher, MD, to digitize the full texts of the major English language psychoanalytic journals.

Dr. Gill was professor emeritus at the University of Illinois as well as a supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Chicago Center of Psychoanalysis

The valuable efforts of the Library of Congress in maintaining and cataloging the extensive Freud material largely submitted by the Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. is a significant contribution to the field of psychoanalysis.

Peter Neubauer was born in Krems, Austria and received his medical degree at the University of Bern. He came to New York in 1941 and trained at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute before joining the Child Development Center.

Roy Schafer is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who has emphasized the place of narrative in psychoanalytic formulations.

Leo Stone, psychoanalyst and teacher was born in Brooklyn New York in 1904. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1928.

Patrick Mahony is Training and Supervising Analyst of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, Professor Emeritus of the University of Montreal, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author and editor of six books and over one hundred articles.

Willy Beranger was born in Algeria in 1922 and spent his childhood in Paris. He earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1945.

Isidoro Berenstein is a renowned psychoanalyst specializing in family and relationships.

Max Hernandez is one of the leading intellectuals in contemporary Peru and a major personality in the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society.

Anna Freud, the founder of Child psychoanalysis was most noted for her work with children and the concept of children undergoing analysis.

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

In addition to her own contributions concerning psychoanalysis in patients of middle years and older, Pearl King has been a strong factor in administration as well as in maintaining a delicate balance between factions that have been less than cordial to each.

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

Born in Poland in 1918, Hanna Segal fled to Britain in 1939. There she completed her medical studies and undertook training and psychoanalytic analysis with Melanie Klein.

The Freud Museum is housed in Sigmund Freud’s London home.

Dr. Brenner reigned as dean of American psychoanalysis for nearly a half-century.

Born in 1909 in Alsace, then a part of Germany, Hans Loewald was a key figure in twentieth-century psychoanalysis, primarily in the United States, whose thought bridged philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Dr. Leo Rangell is the Honorary President of The International Psychoanalytic Association since 1997.

Founded in 1951, The Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. is dedicated to collecting, conserving, collating and making available for scholarly use all of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic and personal papers, his correspondence, photos, records memorabilia and other materials.

Dr. Wallerstein is Emeritus Professor and Former Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

Jacob Arlow was a unique and legendary figure in the International and North American psychoanalytic communities in the second half of the twentieth century.

Described as a man for all seasons, Harold P. Blum is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical enter.

Dr. Kernberg was born in Vienna and fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1939, emigrating to Chile where he where he studied medicine, psychiatry and then psychoanalysis with the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society.

The New Orleans Psychoanalytic Society was organized in October of 1953 and accepted as a Constituent Society by the American Psychoanalytic Association in May of 1955.

Margaret Mahler’s innovative theory of child development impacted psychoanalytically informed child rearing as her Separation-Individuation theory began to be applied to the rearing of children in families and daycare programs.