Fred Busch, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and has been invited to teach at many Institutes. He’s published eight books, and has published over 80 articles on psychoanalytic technique, along with many book reviews and chapters in books. His work has been translated into many languages, and he has been invited to present over 180 papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His last six books are: Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (2014); The Analyst’s Reveries: Explorations in Bion’s Enigmatic Concept (2019); Dear Candidate: Analyst From Around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession (2020); A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique (2021, Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective (2023). The Ego and Id: 100 years later (2023), How Does Analysis Cure? (2024, in press).

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Chrysanthy Wallace, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington, DC.  She holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Music, and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.  In private practice in Washington, DC, Chrissy currently works with adults and adolescents and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program, where she supervises doctoral candidates’ clinical work.  With a background in music and theatre, Chrissy is particularly interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis, creativity, and the arts.  

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Himanshu Agrawal, MBBS, DF-APA, was born in New Delhi and spent his childhood living with his family in Bangladesh, London, Moscow, and Nepal. He emigrated to the USA in 2002 to pursue training in child psychiatry. He is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he sees patients, conducts research, and teaches psychotherapists, pharmacy students, medical students, advance practice providers and physicians. He enjoys a wide array of topics, however his area of academic interest lies in psychodynamic psychiatry, psychoanalysis, wellbeing, burnout and stigma. He is the current president of the APsA candidate council, and the editor for the soon-to-be published book ‘Dear Institute…’.

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Natacha Delgado is a graduated member from the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She works in private practice in clinical psychoanalysis. She has translated numerous psychoanalytical articles (mostly from English into Spanish). Since the beginning of her training, she has had an active participation not only in IPSO but also in different committees and departments at the APA.  Currently, she is one of the members of the IPA Publications Committee. 

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Erika Lepiavka Albisua, was born and raised in Mexico City. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who holds a Specialty Degree in Psychoanalysis as well as a Master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.  She is a Psychoanalyst-in-training at Sociedad Psicoanalítica de México and serves as the current President of IPSO.  Erika served as Chair of the 27th IPSO Congress, Landscapes of the Mind, from Desert to Fire in Cartagena. She is committed to the development of Psychoanalysis, its adaptation into hypermodern times, and its potent capability to transform human pain.