He presented his works at the IARPP conferences, at the IAPSP conferences; at MIP Institute in Boston, at TICP in Toronto. He was co-chair of the IARPP Conference “Unconscious Experience: Relational Perspectives” held in Rome in 2005.

She presented her works at the IARPP conferences; at the IAPSP conferences; at MIP Institute in Boston; at ICP in Toronto; at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalyis in Tel Aviv; at ABEPPS Associacao Brasileira para o Estudo da Psicologia Psicanalitica do Self – Sociedade Psicanalitica di Rio de Janeiro. She was co-chair of the Fourth European Conference on Self Psychology held in Rome in 2006. She was guest speaker at the 6° Reunion Anual de IARPP Espana (Valencia 2015). She was co-chair of the IARPP 13th Annual Conference “The Arts of Time: Relational Psychoanalysis and Forms of Vitality in Clinical Process” hel in Rome June 9-12, 2016.

Dr. Bass is on the faculty, and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In addition, he teaches and is a supervising analyst (adjunct associate professor and former chair, relational orientation) at the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies (founder and president).

He was a founding member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, the International Journal of Relational Perspectives, and is now editor in chief emeritus after stepping down after twelve years as chief editor. He is a founding and current director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is in private practice for psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, couples therapy, and individual and group supervisory consultation in New York City. He leads clinical seminars and workshops throughout the US and Europe.

Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, PhD, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, member of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP). She teaches and supervises in the General Humanities Studies and the Doctoral and Psychotherapy tracks in the School of Psychotherapy, Sackler school of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. She writes and lectures on the interface of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies. Author of the book "Truth Matters: Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis" published by Brill. She lives and practices in Ramat-Hasharon, Israel

Cynthia Chalker, MSS, is a licensed social worker in private practice and a graduate of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has presented papers In the United States and abroad on the intersection of Race, Cultural Identity, and Psychoanalysis. In March 2020, she was a keynote speaker at the 31st Annual NIP Conference: Encounters with the Other: Theoretical Antecedents and Clinical Applications.

Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a Senior Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, in Los Angeles, California, where he is also in full time private practice. He is a Member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, International Journal on Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and a member of the International Council of Self-Psychologists. He has published over 60 articles, chapters and reviews and has presented at conferences all over the world. His book A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Conjoint Therapy (Routledge 2014) won the Goethe Award for best book in psychoanalysis for 2014. He is currently working on a new book on Three-Dimensional Field Theory in Relational Psychoanalysis a topic that is the culmination of over 40 years of thinking and research.

Jessica Benjamin is the author of The Bonds of Love (1988), Like Subjects, Love Objects (1995); Shadow of the Other (1998). and Beyond Doer and done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third 2018. She is a supervising faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies in New York where she practices as an analyst.

Margaret Black, L.C.S.W., is a founding board member and North American Vice-President of IARPP and a founding board member, faculty and supervisor of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is also a board member at NIP and an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Margaret is co-author, with her late husband Stephen Mitchell, of Freud and Beyond: a History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. Margaret’s private practice is in NYC.

Hazel Ipp PhD is a psychologist psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in Toronto, Canada. She is joint Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a founding board director and Past President of IARPP. She is a founding board director and Vice President of the Toronto institute for contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is on faculty at IPSPE ( (Rome). She supervises and teaches nationally and internationally.

SANDRA TORIBIO CABALLERO Sandra Toribio Caballero, PhD, works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Madrid (Spain). She trained at the Institute for Relational Psychotherapy (Madrid), where she is now faculty and deputy director of the training program in Relational Psychoanalysis. She is also a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), being part of the Board of Directors since 2020. She has been a panelist in various IARPP-international conferences (Rome, Sydney, Tel Aviv) and in IARPP-Spain conferences. She has acted as translator/interpreter for various relational psychotherapists during their visits to Spain. Her main area of study and research is psychopathology and gender, as well as feminism and relational psychoanalysis.

Malcolm Owen Slavin,PhD, was a founder of MIP, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he teaches, supervises and served several terms as President. He is on the faculty of several other psychoanalytic institutes worldwide as well as a director of IARPP, and on the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Mal is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Self and Context. His first book (with Daniel Kriegman) was “The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process.” His current book project, “Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in Art and the Art of Psychoanalysis,” explores the major human evolutionary loss that precipitated the existential origins of the arts, religion and the art of psychoanalysis. He is also assembling a volume of his collected papers entitled, “Why the Analyst Needs to Change,” a title drawn from his earlier work with that same name.

Chana Ullman, Ph.D, is a Clinical Psychologist, a Training Psychoanalyst and faculty at the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ullman is faculty and supervisor at the relational track, the school of Psychotherapy, Sackler school of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, and faculty at the doctoral program of Psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ullman is past- president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of the book "The transformed self: The psychology of religious conversion" (Plenum press, 1989) and of numerous publications regarding witnessing, political context and the psychoanalytic process from a relational perspective. She lives and practices in Rehovot, Israel.

Stavros Charalambides is a relational psychoanalyst and certified group psychotherapist, elected Iarpp Board of Directors member since 2018. He Co-Chairs the Iarpp special interest group regarding Couples, Families, and Groups with Gila Ofer. He has founded and directed the Greek Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy since 2016. He runs 8 groups per week, supervises intensely groups and individuals. He is Director and Founder of 4 different programs regarding Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy at Greece. His latest book (2022), the ‘Envy Executioner’ has been published in Greek by Disigma Publications. He edited the first collective book -in Greek- of relational psychoanalysis and group dynamics (published by Disigma Publications ,July 2023). His main interest in his writings and presentations relates to sibling dynamics, envy, mourning and hatred in the transference and countertransference , in the analytic dyad, the family, inter-organizational group processes , the Institutions , the small ,medium and large groups , the society and the multicultural world .

I have been a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice for more than 25 years. Past-president of the Latin American Candidates (FEPAL) during my psychoanalytic training at APCH. Looking for something different, on 2009 I travelled to attend the Tel Aviv IARPP conference in 2009 and became an IARPP member. I also started being part of the organization, at first being part of the IARPP’s Candidates Committee while begining to stablish our Chilean chapter with other collegues (first IARPP chapter in Latin America!). In 2013 I co-chaired with Juan Francisco Jordan the International conference held in Santiago. I worked for 7 years on the IARPPChile board, being the president from 2016 to 2018. I’ve also been working since I was 25 years old on a public mental institution (for 11 years a full time job) and currently teaching and supervising the applicability of psychoanalytic relational thinking to high complexity and socialy vulnerable patients. I’m currently a member of the IARPP’s Board of Directors.

Faculty in the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Head of "Mifrasim Institute for Psychotherapy Training and Research" in the School for Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo including heading "Ogen – Integration Based Psychotherapy Training Program" as part of the institute, former chair of the Israeli Forum for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and former board member of IARPP, co-manager of "Siach Group - an Institute for Relational Psychotherapy" Tel Aviv, private practice Tel Aviv.

Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D. is a faculty member of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a supervisor of psychotherapy and faculty at the William Alanson White Institute in NYC. She is also an associate editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and on the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Crastnopol is on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, Routledge, 2015. Currently working remotely, she’s in private practice for the treatment of individuals and couples in Seattle, WA and elsewhere.

Ilana Laor, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and group analyst. Currently she is a board member and the president of the Israeli chapter of IARPP.  Laor teaches and supervises at the Psychotherapy Program: core and relational track at Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. Laor also initiated a special project called "Chavruta" (ancient Hebrew for "in company"), at the relational track Tel Aviv University. For four consecutive years she conducted the project, bringing together artists, writers, film directors, bible scholars, judges, and brain researchers, who met with psychoanalytically oriented professionals, in order to share thoughts and hold discussions that were of mutual benefit.

She was the former owner and Director of Ramat Aviv Institute, a private clinic certified by the Israel Ministry of Health for internship in clinical psychology, for analytical therapy for children and adults, individual, group, and couple therapy, relationally oriented.  She writes on the relational consulting room, and the analytic process and has been published in professional journals, in both English and Hebrew and has published 3 'relational' children's books. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv.

Cathy Hicks PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a founder member and past president of the Australian Chapter of IARPP, and a former Board member of the IARPP. She was co-chair of the 2017
IARPP Annual Conference, held in Sydney, and is one of the current co-chairs of the IARPP Colloquium Committee.

Hilary Offman, MD FRCPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Toronto, Canada and with hospital appointments at the University Health Network and St. Michael’s Hospital at theDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She is a faculty member and supervisor of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP) where she received her analytic training. She is also a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto where she supervises senior psychiatry residents. As well, she is former co-chair of the Candidates Committee for the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) and is a current member of the IARRP Board of Directors. She has presented her work at IARPP conferences, Division 39 Annual Conferences, the International Health Humanities Consortium, the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Educators (IFPE) and the International Literary Arts and Health Humanities Conference.
Hilary’s writing is published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Transgender Quarterly. Her most recent paper, “The Otherness of Fat- An Intersectional Enactment of Epic Proportions” is being published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Her papers, “The Princess and the Penis” and “The Queering of a Cisgender Psychoanalyst” are used to teach about working psychoanalytically with patients who identify as non-binary. She knits simple projects with yarn that istoo expensive. Her husband is a paediatrician and neonatologist in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto. Her golden doodle Steve supervises her in her office, and her son comes home from university periodically for elaborate meals.

Caryn Sherman-Meyer, LCSW, is faculty, supervisor and training analyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and other psychoanalytic institutes. She is director and curriculum co-director of its Training Program in Psychoanalysis and Comprehensive Psychotherapy, founding director of its License Qualifying Program and a member of its Board of Directors. Caryn teaches and writes about therapeutic action, eating disorders and embodied communication. She practices and supervises individual, group and couples’ psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City.

Juan Francisco Jordan M.D. Psiquiatra. Psychoanalyst. Founding of the IARPP Board. Attached Associate Professor Psychology School Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis 1998-2009. President Chilean Psychoanalytic Association 1992-1994. President IARPP- Chile 2018-2023.Past- President APPR-Chile. Numerous Publications in International and National Journals and Book Chapters. Co-Editor of the books “Cuarenta Años de Psicoanálisis en Chile. Biografía de una Sociedad Científica”, “ Mente y Conjuntos Infinitos. Aproximaciones a la bi-lógica de Matte Blanco”. Private Practice as Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist in Santiago de Chile during the last 40 years.

Maria Tammone, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. I work in Rome in private practice, with adults and young adults. I am in the “Isipse” the Institute of relational psychoanalysis and psychology of the Self, in Rome. I took to several IARPP congresses in USA and Europe. I was in the organizing staff , Local committee, ROME IARPP congress, Rome 2016. Right now, I am part of the IARPP Board of Directors.

Dr. Micha Weiss is a senior clinical psychologist and supervisor from Tel-Aviv, member of IARPP since its inception.
Micha is a senior clinical lecturer at Colman Academic Institute and he teaches Ethics and Relational Psychoanalysis, and leads various experiential workshops that deal with the Ethical Presence of the psychoanalytic therapist.
He has written various papers, among them 'Ethical Presence in the Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Role of Apology' (AJP, 2018).
He is a member of the board of directors of IARPP, and member of the Ethical Committee of the Israeli Psychological Association.

Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay, Ph.D., Ed.M. (she/her) is a founding board member and Co-Director of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and is also on the faculty of the Mitchell Relational Studies Center, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) and Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in New York. She is co-editor, with David Mark, of Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis (2023, Routledge). She has written on implication; empathy and recognition; the expansion of maternal subjectivity and thus enriched potential space made possible by Jessica Benjamin’s theory; and (with David Mark) the importance of the “intersubjective real.” She is in practice in Philadelphia and New York.

Shari Appollon, LCSW-R, is a Haitian-American 2nd year candidate in the 4YR Adult Psychoanalytic Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is a graduate of The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center OYP and a clinical supervisor at NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy, a group practice that provides affordable psychotherapy to the LGBTQ+ community. She is in full-time private practice in Brooklyn New York.

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. Joyce is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of NIP (all in New York), Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ricerca Psicoanalitica and Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and is on the Board of the IARPP. Joyce has published over 100 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Second Editions of her two books, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006), were released in 2014 by Routledge. She is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of “De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within” and “Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique ( Routledge, 2018). She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples, runs supervision and study groups.

Dr. Steven Kuchuck is Senior Consulting Editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Immediate Past President of IARPP, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. His most recent book is The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Confer Books, 2021).In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.