Debra Gill is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, where she is also on the permanent faculty. She teaches and supervises at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, an Institute affiliated with a community-based mental health clinic. She is a former supervisor at the Mt Sinai Narcotic Rehabilitation Center and has written and presented on addictions.

She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She presents at conferences through both organizations and at the IPA is a member of the Humanitarian Field Committee. She practices in NYC and works with individuals, couples and families. She writes and presents on intergenerational trauma and the impact of transmission on adults, families and communities.

Dr. Eva Maria Yakubov is a senior adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society (IPS), with over 30 years of experience in community mental health and crisis intervention. She co-founded an NGO with units operating in community mental hospitals and also co-founded a private Day Care Unit for patients with mental distress which she also directs.

Dr. Yakubov is a former member of the Executive Board of the IPS since 2021 serving as a treasurer, and was a member of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic Assistance in Crisis and Emergencies (PACE), actively participating in multiple international projects.

Ever since 7.10.23, she has been deeply involved in providing psychoanalytic support to evacuated patients in central Israel and in initiatives to establish polyclinics for evacuees, survivors of the northern and southern attacks, and active-duty soldiers. Alongside her community and organizational work, she maintains private psychoanalytic practice in Tel Aviv

Gloria Blanco is a candidate of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society (APAS) and works a private practice in Gold Coast, Australia. She has experience in hospital work and is also involved with Crisis and Responders Outreach (CARO), a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing mental health support to migrants, refugees, caregivers of refugees, and healthcare professionals dealing with trauma and crisis.

Gloria has presented various papers at conferences in Australia and international events organised by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), including upcoming conferences  Asia-Pacific (2024), and in Lisbon (2025)  focusing on topics such as political persecution, language, and immigration form psychoanalitical perspectives.

Honey Oberoi Vahali is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychology at the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.

Member and current Vice President of the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), member of FEPAL and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Member of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Humanitarian Field (2018–present). Former Editor-in-Chief of Psicoanálisis, the journal of the SPP (2018–2023).

Clinical Psychologist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), with a Master’s Degree in Theoretical Studies of Psychoanalysis and doctoral studies in Philosophy at the same university. Faculty member of the SPP Institute.

Author of several papers, including:

• “Tiempo de Escucha: una lectura a posteriori con mirada de porvenir” (Psicoanálisis, Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis, No. 28, 2023).
• “Psychologists Contigo: working with displaced inhabitants because of natural disaster,” in Trauma, Flight and Migration(2022), edited by Vivienne Elton et al., London: Routledge.
• “Genealogía materna: identificación narcisista en tres generaciones de mujeres,” in The Status of Women: Violence, Identity and Activism(2017), edited by Vivian Pender, Great Britain: Karnac.

Co-editor of La maternidad y sus vicisitudes hoy (2006), Lima: Sidea.
Author of additional papers in the field.

Kai Ogimoto Ph.D. an IPSO member of the IPA in the Humanitarian Field Committee, Associate Professor of Sagami Women's University, a Candidate of The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society (IPA), a Candidate Member of American Psychoanalytic Association, a Practitioner of Mentalization Based Treatment certified by the Anna Freud and the British Psychoanalytical Council, Founder and President of Japan MBT Society. Recent publication in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in last year; "The inability to mourn and nationalism in Japan after 1945" by Kai Ogimoto and Tomas Plaenkers.

APsA President Candidates’ Council IPSO Vice President North American Region, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist-EFPP Psychothérapeute spéc. en Psychothérapie, FSPPsychoanalyst-in Training

Child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst (CPS and IPA). Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Retired Associate Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University. Teaching and Supervising child analyst and faculty member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute. President founder of the Aquarium Foundation, a Psychanalytic foundation dedicated to the wellbeing of children and young adults.

Mounir Samy has undertaken several psychiatric humanitarian missions for children and families in war zones or underprivileged areas, through national and international organizations. These missions have taken him to Africa, South America, Asia and the Middles-East.

Author of over 40 professional publications, mostly on child and adolescent psychoanalysis, humanitarian psychiatry and transgenderism. Recipient of several awards namely the 2025 Coronation Medal of King Charles III for his «valuable contribution to the country». Father and grandfather, lover of philosophy and the arts and the meeting of people and culture.

Co-Chair of the IPA in the Humanitarian Field Committee na IPA International Psychoanalytical Association

Susan Siegeltuch is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She works with adults, children, adolescents and offers parent-infant treatment. She is committed to her long-standing work with asylum seekers. She is the author of an award-winning paper, "Out From Behind the Couch: The Case of a Mother and her Suicidal Teen Daughter in Detention".

Susan is fluent in Spanish, having been raised in Caracas, Venezuela, with poverty all around.

Susan has deep concern about humanitarian issues and the mistreatment of asylum seekers in the USA. Susan is a past co-chair of the IPA PACE Committee and has joined the Humanitarian Field Committee.

Virginia De Micco, is a Full Member and Training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), a member of the IPA-Committee on Humanitarian and a member of the EPF Group on “Psychoanalysis Migration and Cultural Identities”. Chair of the PER group ( Psychoanalysts for Refugees) of Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI).

She worked in psychocultural field, particularly with migrants and refugees, with unaccompanied minors and women victims of violence, paying special attention to cultural differences, to the psychodynamics of racism and prejudice, to mother-child relations and to the transgenerational aspects of traumas in migratory experience.

She wrote several articles in International Reviews, all collected now in the book Psychoanalytic work with migrants and refugees. Bonds and fractures across identities and cultures , recently published for Routledge ed. , London, 2026

Dr Vivienne Elton, OAM is a psychiatrist, past president and training and supervising analyst at The Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She is currently Chair of IPA in the Humanitarian Field Committee, which includes the Migrants and Refugees and IPA at the United Nations subcommittees and serves as a member of the IPA in the Community and the World Steering Committee.

She co-founded CARO Service Australia, which offers free psychoanalytic support to refugees, migrants, and frontline workers, and works with survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide assisting them to collect testimony. She was founding president and now vice president of CARO.

She served 12 years on the Australian Psychoanalytical Society as Executive as President, Vice President, Chair of the Scientific Committee, Honorary Secretary, and Acting Chair of the Melbourne Branch and Institute. She was a member of many committees of the Melbourne Branch of Psychoanalysis and APAS. As curriculum committee chair, she co-developed the APAS theoretical curriculum.

She has taught psychotherapists in China as Professor in the Wuhan Psychotherapy Training Program, Wuhan Mental Health Centre, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and is currently a member of the IPA Sponsoring Committee for the China Study Group in Wuhan.

Dr Elton maintains a private practice in Melbourne, treating patients in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and has an interest in working with migrants and refugees, mothers and babies, and survivors of genocide. She mentors early-career clinicians, teaches, and supervises psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and candidates, in Australia and China and has conducted infant observations in China. She teaches candidates and in outreach programs for the Melbourne Branch.

She is a former President, Vice President and currently Treasurer of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP).

In 2022, Dr Elton was awarded an Order of Australia by the Australian Government for her contributions to psychiatry and the wider community.

Vivian Eskin, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Adult) at the Contemporary Freudian Society and a graduate of the CFS/IPTAR Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program in New York. She holds a Qualifying Diploma in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Tavistock Relationships in London. Dr. Eskin teaches at training institutes in New York City, provides clinical supervision, and maintains a private practice.

Dr. Eskin specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults, couples, families, and parent–child dyads. She provides care across the full life span, including reproductive and family-building concerns, pregnancy and the perinatal period, and all subsequent developmental stages through aging and end-of-life issues.