Jan Abram is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society and is in private practice in London. He is President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation and Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. Jan Abram has published numerous books and articles, in particular: The Language of Winnicott, first published in 1996 (Outstanding Academic Book of the Year in 1997) (second edition in 2007 and translated into several languages; Classic Book PEP); Donald Winnicott Today (2013) for the New Library of Psychoanalysis series (Gradiva Award finalist); The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: comparisons and dialogues (co-authored with R.D. Hinshelwood, Routledge 2018); The Surviving Object: psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object for the New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge (2022); and the second book with R.D. Hinshelwood: The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: comparisons and dialogues (2023) (finalist for the Gradiva Award).

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, full member with training functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is an honorary member of the Italian Association of Analytical Psychology. In addition to various contributions to scientific journals, he has published several volumes on the psychoanalysis of serious pathologies, on the theory and the analytical technique. He received the Tycho award of the IPA. He was editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

Psychiatrist, PhD in Psychiatry and Relational Sciences, and psychoanalyst with training functions at the SPI, IPA and APsaA, he lives and works in Pavia. He was a member of the executive committee of the SPI in the role of director of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi. He is part, among others, of the board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse (until February 2025), and was a member of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (until 2024). He edits the Field Theory Series for Routledge. He carries out clinical supervision activities in Italy and abroad and was a keynote speaker at the IPA congress in Mexico City and at numerous international congresses. He has more than 400 publications to his credit, many of which in major international journals where the peer-review rule applies. He is the author of sixteen books as an author, almost all translated into English (and some into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, and Japanese), and five books as an editor. The latest titles in Italian are: The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art, 2020 (Gradiva-Lavarone Prize); On Arrogance: An Essay on Psychoanalysis, 2023; Introduction to the Theory of the Analytic Field, 2024; The Limits of Interpretation: Essays on Bion and the Analytic Field, 2025; The Horse Will Come into the Room: Animality, Humanity, and the Unconscious in Renaissance Art, 2025 (in press). In 2022 he received the Sigourney Award.

Psychologist, specialized in Clinical Psychology, psychoanalyst, associate member of S.P.I. and I.P.A. She lives and works in Bologna, as a psychoanalyst, with children, adolescents, adults and couples. She is particularly interested in the study of the development of dream work and the dream functions of the mind in the psychoanalytic process. On this topic she has presented papers at S.P.I., I.P.A and BION conferences and has written some articles and contributions to collective books. Since 2016 she has been a teacher in the course Field Theory in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, at the specialization school in psychoanalytic psychotherapy A.P.A., Chieti.

Psychiatrist, analyst with Training Functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, he was Scientific Secretary and then President; from 2001 to 2004 IPA Board Member, and from 2013 to 2017 he was President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. From 2002 to 2012 he was a member of the European Editorial Board of the “International Journal of Psychoanalysis”; since 2013 he has been part of the Advisory Board of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) of Berlin. He is an Honorary Member of the New York Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS); of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS); and of the Centro Psicoanalitico di Firenze (CPF). Founder and first Chair of the “IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis” (IRED). He has published 290 psychoanalytic works in the main specialized journals and in numerous volumes in Italy and abroad. He has published 8 books, later translated into various languages, dealing with empathy, inter-psychic relationship, institutional problems and training. His book “Vital Flows between Self and Non-Self” won the American Gradiva Award (Best Book 2023). He lives and works in Bologna.

Psychologist specialized in Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalyst Associate Member of the SPI and of the IPA, he is a member and current Scientific Secretary of the Centro di Psicoanalisi Romano. For the SPI he was Reader of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi and member of the National Commission ‘Psicoanalisi e Giustizia’, also dealing with the cycle ‘Arte e Psicoanalisi’ in collaboration with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. Teacher at various Schools of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, for years he has cultivated an interest in the thought of Winnicott, Bion and the post-Bionian tradition.