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Dr. Harold Blum was a distinguished psychoanalyst whose contributions spanned over fifty years. His pioneering work in psychoanalysis, particularly in modernizing the understanding of female psychology, reshaped the field. As former Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives and editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he published nearly 200 scientific papers, edited ten books, and mentored countless students across four continents. His distinguished career earned him the Margaret Mahler Prize in 1976 and the Sigourney Award in 1996.

Dr. Rosemary Balsam FRCPsych (Lond), MRCP (Edin), (originally from Belfast, N.Ireland), is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School; staff psychiatrist in the Yale Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Conn.

Her special interests are female gender developments; young adulthoods; the body in psychic life; the work of Hans Loewald. She has written award winning papers and books, lectured locally and internationally, is on major editorial boards, and was co-editor of the Book Review Section of JAPA. Winner of the Sigourney Award, 2018. Author,: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge); Ed. The Legacy and Promise of Hans Loewald:and: The Emerging Tradition of Hans Loewald. (Routledge).(2024).

Lawrence Blum, MD holds appointments as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he helped to initiate and co-directs the undergraduate minor in Psychoanalytic Studies. He also teaches at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he was recently made an honorary member of the Child Psychoanalytic Faculty. He has published articles on a wide array of topics, including The Psychodynamics of Postpartum Depression; Counterdependency; The ABD Student and the Psychology of the Dissertation; Physicans and Guilt; and Music, Memory, and Relatedness, as well as a variety of op-ed columns and numerous articles aimed at introducing psychoanalytic ideas to trainees, students, and the public. His most recent article is “Minding Our Minds: Obsessive-Compulsiveness, Psychiatry, and Psychology,” published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.

Doctor in Medicine and Psychiatrist, training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, Stefano Bolognini is a former President of the Bologna Psychoanalytic Center, former National Scientific Secretary and former President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society.

After having been IPA Board Representative for two mandates and member and chair of several IPA committees he became the first Italian elected to be a President of IPA, and served in this capacity from 2013 to 2017.

For 10 years (2002-2012) he was a member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he is now member of the Advisory Board of the Psychoanalytic University in Berlin.

His main scientific interests are in Psychoanalytic Empathy, Interpsychic Dimension, Institutional Issues, Educational Topics, Theory of Technique. Numerous books and articles written by Dr. Bolognini have been translated in many languages and are must haves for any student of contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Bolognini is the founder of the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED). Dr. Bolognini received two prestigious Gradiva Awards: the Italian Gradiva Award for the book of short tales published in 2006 titled "Like Wind, like Waves" and the second, the 2023 North-American Gradiva Award for his latest book "Vital Flows between Self and Non-Self: The Interpsychic" published in 2022.

Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, MD, FAPA is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Weil Cornell College of Cornell University. He is Visiting Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Training and Research.

He is Past Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and a Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of 15 books and co-author of 13 others, including Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism; Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies; Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications; The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression; Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads; Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism; and most recently, Hatred, Emptiness and Hope.

Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP is the Global Chair (Europe, North America, Latin America) of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED) committee.

Also, a Senior Clinical Faculty and Supervisor in the Doctoral program of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University in New York; the past Executive Director and Dean of the Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society where she has been a Training and Supervising Analyst since 1996; Training, Teaching, and Supervising Analyst, Object Relations Institute; Founder and Chair of the Psychoanalysis, Art and Creativity, www.psychartcreativity.org, an Affiliate of the International Association for the Arts and Psychology; Editorial Board member of the International Journal for Group Psychotherapy; Special Issues Editor and Editorial Reader for the International Forum for Psychoanalysis and for the Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

In August 2013, together with Harold Blum, she co-chaired the historic Post-IPA

Congress International Symposium “Psychological Birth and Infant Development” in

Sigmund Freud’s birthplace, proceeds of which are published in the monograph volume “Freud in Pribor” in the International Forum for Psychoanalysis, 2015, 24, I, which she co-edited. She is a Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and its Committee for Psychoanalysis and the Arts; American Psychological Association and its Divisions for Psychoanalysis (39) and Clinical Psychology (12); International Psychoanalytical Association; International Group Psychotherapy Association; Center for Advancement of Psychoanalysis (CAPS); a Fellow of The Academy of Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, an Honorary Member of the Czech Psychoanalytic Society, and an International Member of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). Originally from the Czech Republic, she lives and works in New York City and Westchester.

As we reflect on Dr. Harold Blum's exceptional contributions to psychoanalysis, we invite his personal and professional community to come together to celebrate his legacy. This lecture provides an opportunity to honor his memory, his groundbreaking work, and the profound impact he had on the field and on the lives of those he mentored.