Carlton Jama Adams is a practicing clinical psychologist who has worked extensively with children, adolescents, and adults from low-income families. He is also Professor of Psychology in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York, where he teaches first-generation students and formerly incarcerated persons. Dr. Adams has published on issues such as working with African American adolescents and adults, Black parenting styles, the coping strategies of Black workers in China, and Blackness and Psychoanalysis, from psychoanalytic and socio-political perspectives.
Maria Ammon practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berlin, where she is the scientific head of the Berliner Lehr- und Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Akademie für Psychoanalyse (DAP). For over thirty years she was the Therapeutic Managing Director of the dynamic-psychiatric hospital Klinik Menterschwaige in Munich. She is President of the German Academy for Psychoanalysis (DAP), executive secretary of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry (WADP), and has taught at the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Stathis Argyriou is a second-year psychiatry resident at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He studied medicine in Greece and worked in research on the genetics of psychiatric disorders at the Friedman Brain Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Anna Blech is about to begin Columbia University's psychiatry residency program and is a recent graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. There, she served as chief teaching senior of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership Mental Health Clinic, a student-run clinic providing psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and medication management under faculty supervision to uninsured immigrants and refugees.
Jean-Jacques Bonamour du Tartre has a private psychiatric practice in Paris, and formerly worked in psychiatric hospitals in the greater Paris area. He is Vice-President of the AFPEP-SNPP, the union and learned society for private psychiatrists, and was President of the Conseil National Professionnel de Psychiatrie from 2017 to 2018 and of the Fédération Française de Psychiatrie from 2017 to 2019, serving, after his presidency, on the Board of Directors of both organizations.
Michel Botbol is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Western Brittany, France. He headed the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Brest and the Dupré Clinic in Sceaux, France, and served as a psychiatric advisor to the French National Juvenile Justice System. He has long belonged to the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (member of IPA). He co-founded the WPA Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section in 2002, was its Secretary (2002-08) and President (2008-11, 2014-17). An ex-member of the WPA Executive Committee, he is a current member of the Board of Directors of the International College of Person Centered Medicine and President of the World Association of Dynamic Psychiatry.
Mario Colucci is a psychiatrist and Director of the General Hospital Psychiatric Unit in Udine (Italy). He is a psychoanalyst and a member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. He teaches at the University of Trieste and the Istituto per la Clinica dei Legami Sociali in Venice. He is an editor of the journal aut aut. In 2024 he published, with Pierangelo Di Vittorio, Franco Basaglia. Pensiero, pratiche, politica (new ed.) and Franco Basaglia. Un intellettuale nelle pratiche. In 2026, he edited the book Che cos’è la salute mentale? Genealogie e prospettive critiche.
Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira practices psychoanalysis and psychiatry. He is Full Professor of Clinical Psychopathology at the Université Aix-Marseille, France, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Universade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil), where he is Director of the Laboratory of Psychopathology: Subject and Singularity (LaPSuS-UNICAMP). He is also Secretary of the Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).
Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Rio de Janeiro, where he is the Director of Corpo Freudiano. He is a member of the Société Internationale d'Histoire de la Psychiatrie et de la Psychanalyse, and is the author of many books about the foundations of psychoanalysis as well as two studies on contemporary sexuality, Histeria e sexualidade and Transexualidade: o corpo entre o sujeito e a ciência.
Yann Diener practices psychoanalysis in Paris, privately and at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne, where he has created the laboratory Inconscient et Machines, in which he is conducting an experiment implementing Lacan's formula for metaphor in a vocal AI. He has published On agite un enfant (2011), Des histoires chiffonnées (2019), LQI – Notre langue quotidienne informatisée (2022), La mâchoire de Freud (2024), and L’inconscient inculqué à mon ordinateur (2025).
Sarah Faitell is a psychiatrist and a current public psychiatry fellow at Columbia University working with OnTrackNY, a coordinated specialty care program for young people and their networks experiencing first-episode psychosis. She completed residency training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and psychodynamic psychotherapy training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.
Lillian Ferrari practices psychoanalysis in NYC. She is a faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and has published numerous articles on psychoanalysis, most recently in the anthologies Sexualidad y los lazos sociales and ¿Lailusión de vivir, tiene porvenir?
Hervé Granier practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Montpellier, France. A past President of the Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry section of the World Psychiatric Assocation (WPA), he is a member of the Association Lacanienne Internationale and the Cercle Français d’ Épistémologie en Psychiatrie.
Fabian Guénolé is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Lille University Hospital, France and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is former Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Caen, Normandy (UniCaen) and a current member of the INSERM-EPHE-UniCaen research unit Neuropsychology and Imaging of Human Memory. His work focuses on perinatal mental health, identity disturbances, and institutional approaches to psychiatric care.
Swapnil Gupta is a psychiatrist who has worked in many different settings in both India and the United States. She is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a staff psychiatrist at the V.A. Medical Center in Hudson Valley, NY. Her clinical and academic focus is deprescribing psychotropic medications, about which she has written peer-reviewed papers and a book, and she is particularly interested in the academic politics surrounding such deprescription. She works mostly in direct care patients seeking psychotropic medication tapers.
Jennifer Harper engages her teaching and practice in New York at the intersection of psychoanalysis and religion. She served as Director of the Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program for Clinical Education and Pastoral Care at Hebrew Union College (NYC), is a faculty member at the Blanton-Peale Training Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and has been a legislative advocate (NY State) for licensing and promoting national standards for accreditation in psychoanalysis as an independent profession. She holds a Master’s of Divinity degree in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Westchester Institute.
Luigi Janiri is a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst (Italian Association and IPA). He is Professor of Psychiatry and former director of the Psychiatry Residency Training at the Catholic University of Rome and Professor of Psychopathology and Psychiatry at the LUMSA University in Rome. He was also head of the Psychiatry Unit at the A. Gemelli University Hospital in Rome and President of the Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations. He is currently Chair of the WPA Section on Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and President of the European Society of Social Psychiatry.
Dominique Landman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. She is the medical director of a day hospital for adolescents, a child psychiatry outpatient clinic (CMPP), and a center providing care for adults and adolescents with addictions. She is President of Espace Analytique and of the Maison des Adolescents des Hauts-de-Seine.
Patrick Landman practices psychiatry, child psychiatry, and psychoanalysis in Paris, and is a legal expert. A former President of Espace Analytique, current President of Stop DSM and of the Conseil Scientifique d’AEVE (Association Autisme Espoir Vers L’Ecole), he is the author of many books, including Tous Hyperactifs? (2015) (translated into English as Are We All Hyperactive?) and L’inclusion des enfants autistes, une perspective psychanalytique (2024).
Jean-Pierre Lebrun practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Namur, Belgium, and is a former President and Vice-President of the Association Lacanienne Internationale. He is the editorial director of the Humus series of Éditions érès, and is the author of some twenty works on the relations between subjectivity and the social link.
Juan E. Mezzich is Tenured Professor of Psychiatry and of Global Health and Health Systems Design and Director of the International Center for Mental Health and Person Centered Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Hipolito Unanue Professor of Person Centered Medicine at San Marcos National University in Lima, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, London. He has been Secretary General and President, and is currently Council Chair, of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and is the Founding President of the International College of Person Centered Medicine. He has authored over 400 scientific journal articles and book chapters and 34 books, including the textbooks Person Centered Psychiatry and Person Centered Medicine.
André Michels is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Luxembourg and Paris as well as a faculty member of Après-Coup. He is also co-editor of the Jahrbuch für klinische Psychoanalyse, editor of Actualité de l’hystérie, and the author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He has recently co-organized a seminar, “Crisis of Democracy, Crisis of Clinical Practice?” His fields of investigation are transmission, normativity (logic, ethics, politics), and numeration.
Paola Mieli is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is the president of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York), the co-chair of the section of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry of the World Psychiatry Association (WPA), and a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris) and Espace Analytique (Paris). The author of numerous essays on psychoanalysis and on culture, she is Editor of the Sea Horse Imprint, Agincourt Press, New York.
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the National Health Service in London. She researches and writes about the nature of mental health problems and the drug treatments prescribed for such problems, including antidepressants and antipsychotics. She has led large UK government-funded research studies, and is the author of numerous scientific papers and several books about psychiatric drugs, including Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth (2025) and The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2008). Her website is https://joannamoncrieff.com/, Twitter handle @joannamoncrieff.
Ona Nierenberg is a psychoanalyst practicing in NYC. She is a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, where she leads a monthly psychoanalytic working group for institutionally-based clinicians. She was, for 22 years, senior psychologist at Bellevue Hospital where she was Director of HIV Psychological Services and a supervisor with the Program for Survivors of Torture. Her articles on psychoanalysis and culture have been published internationally.
Vladan Novakovic practices psychiatry in New York City, where he is affiliated with multiple hospitals, including Mount Sinai and James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Belgrade and for over twenty years has treated patients suffering from a wide array of diagnosed conditions such as dementia and bipolar disorder.
Thomas G. Schulze is currently President Elect of the WPA and will become its President this September for three years. Since 2014, he has held the chair of Psychiatry, Phenomenology, and Genomics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Phenomenology, and Genomics at the University of Munich. With extensive experience of psychiatric genetics since 1997 in several regions of the world, he is internationally known for forming the large international cohort crucial to empirical studies and research on pharmacogenetics of schizophrenia and affective disorder. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY's Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse.
Alex Vicente Spadini, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Brazil, is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and is actively involved in global psychiatry initiatives. He is Co-Chair of the Early Career Psychiatrists Section of the World Psychiatric Association and President of ABENEPI-RS, his state's chapter of the Asscociação Brasileria de Neurologia e Psiquiatria Infantil e Profissões Afins. His work focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism and ADHD, including cross-cultural adaptation of assessment tools.
Beverly J. Stoute is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, as well as an educator, leadership advisor, and organizational consultant. Dr. Stoute is a training and supervising analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta and a child and adolescent supervising analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is internationally recognized for her work transforming psychoanalytic and developmental perspectives on race awareness. She co-edited, with Michael Slevin, The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter (2023).
Hachem Tyal is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Casablanca, Morocco. He is the founder and Medical Director of Clinique Villa des Lilas, Africa's first private psychiatric and addiction clinic, the Founding President of the National Federation for Mental Health (FNSM), President of the National Union of Private Practice Psychiatrists (SNPEP) and of the Moroccan Association of Dynamic Psychiatry (AMPD), as well as a member of the Executive Board of the Psychoanalysis Section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA-PIP) and Vice-President of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry (WADP).