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Clara Nemas, MD, IPA, is a training and supervising analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (APdeBA), child and adolescent psychoanalyst, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She maintains a full-time private psychoanalytic practice in Buenos Aires and was vice-president and scientific secretary of the APdeBA. She chairs the admissions and progression committee of the IPA China Committee and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is also a member of the Latin American Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods and was Latin American Chair for the IPA Congress on The Infantile. She has published numerous papers on ethics, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical technique in working with adolescent patients, and is currently involved in teaching Kleinian and neo-Kleinian theory.

Florence Guignard, born in Geneva in 1934, is of Swiss and French nationality. She is a clinical psychologist and Child and Adolescent Training Member of the IPA. She is past Vice-President and Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and Past Chair and present Counsellor of the IPA Committee on child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. She founded the Association pour la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant in 1984, and the Société Européenne pour la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent (SEPEA) in 1994. She chaired the team of l’Année Psychanalytique Internationale/IJP and has published more than 200 psychoanalytical papers in French, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish and psychoanalytical reviews and book chapters in French, English, Italian and German. She has authored four books: Au Vif de l’Infantile (1996), Épître à l’objet (1997) both translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish; Quelle Psychanalyse pour le XXIe siècle? (2015), translated into English as Psychoanalytic concepts and Technique in Development. Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Physics, (Routledge 2020); Au vif de l’Infantile, aujourd’hui (2020) translated into English as The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today” (Routledge, 2022). She has two books forthcoming later in 2022 Le psychanalyste dans la cité and Conversations psychanalytiques. Une autobiographie with Sylvie Reignier.

Jan Abram is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and in private practice in London. She is Visiting Professor of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and currently Vice President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She is a Visiting Lecturer and supervisor at the Tavistock Clinic, London. In 2016 she was a Visiting Professor for the University of Kyoto, Japan, where she resided for a writing sabbatical. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Paris Group, a research group of the European Psychoanalytic Federation, and was its chair between 2016 and 2019. Jan Abram has published several books and articles notably: The Language of Winnicott, first published in 1996 and judged Outstanding Academic Book of the Year in 1997 (2nd edition 2007 and translated into several languages; Classic Book PEP); Donald Winnicott Today (2013) for the New Library of Psychoanalysis (shortlisted for a Gravida Award); and co-authored with R.D.Hinshelwood The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: comparisons and dialogues (Routledge 2018). In September 2021, she published: The Surviving Object: psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object (New Library, Routledge). She is presently working on a 2nd book with R.D. Hinshelwood – The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: comparisons and dialogues to be published by Routledge later this year.