Candy Aubry, the European Consultant of epff for Switzerland, is a psychoanalyst working with children and adults in private practice in Geneva. After completing her medical studies in Australia, she specialised in child psychiatry and psychotherapy in Geneva before training as a psychoanalyst with the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society where she currently co-animates a seminar for candidates on the chronological reading of Freud. She was a participant at the first epff, when she presented a discussion of a French film, Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien, with its director Dominik Moll. 

Carole Bach is a psychologist and psychoanalyst from the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society working part-time at the Service Médico-Pédagogique in Geneva where she conducts a seminar on the chronological reading of Freud as well as a clinical-theoretical seminar on psychotherapy for children and adolescents. She is also responsible for an adolescent unit. Another part of her professional activity is dedicated to private practice conducting psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults as well as individual and group supervisions. 

Roni Baht is a clinical psychologist, and a faculty member at the Postgraduate Psychotherapy Program of Tel Aviv University, where he teaches and supervises in the advanced programme in relational psychotherapy. He serves as the consultant of the In treatment series, and is now involved in planning its second season.

David Bell is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and the chair of its Scientific Committee. He is also consultant psychiatrist in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic. He has published and lectured widely on culture and psychoanalysis, Freud scholarship, and on Klein and Bion. He co-chairs a group of psychoanalysts and philosophers. Publications include Culture and Psychoanalysis: a Kleinian perspective (Karnac books) and Paranoia (Icon books).

Nir Bergman, scriptwriter and director of many episodes of In Treatment, is a filmmaker. His first film, Sea-horses, won first prize from an international jury evaluating graduation projects of the graduates of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School since its establishment. His award-winning film Broken Wings was shown at epff2 in 2003. He is now completing a new dramatic series for Israeli television.

Emanuel Berman, the European Consultant of epff for Israel, is a training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and a professor of psychology at the University of Haifa. He is the editor of Essential papers on literature and psychoanalysis (NYU Press, 1993) and the author of Impossible training: A relational view of psychoanalytic education (Analytic Press, 2004). His papers on film were published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, in Gabbard's Psychoanalysis and film, and in Sabbadini's The couch and the silver screen and Projected shadows.

Bernardo Bertolucci, the leading Italian film director, is also Honorary Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Honorary President of epff. He was born in Parma in 1941 and his films include: Before the Revolution, The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, La Luna, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty, Besieged and The Dreamers.

Philippe Blasband was born in 1964 in Teheran by an Iranian mother and a Polish-Austrian Jewish father, A Belgian author, he has lived in England, Israel, the USA and in Iran. His numerous novels, theatre plays and film scripts have got many awards and were translated into Italian, German, Chinese, Russian and Dutch. He writes about himself: ‘I am the husband of the actress Aylin Yay. We have two children, Théo is suffering from dyslexia and this is a major event in our lives. I love green tea, chocolate and Iranian rice. I have weight problems and am often on a diet’.

Adama Boulanger, a member of the Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (APEP), is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private and public practice (OSE: Child Assistance and Pitié-Salpêtrière), and runs a research workshop on 'Psychoanalysis and cinema' at La Salpêtrière hospital. She was formerly a hospital doctor in Paris and senior registrar at the faculty of Medicine in Paris. She is the co-author of 'Association of therapeutic strategies' in Daniel Widlöcher's Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has also collaborated, at the International Cultural Centre of Cerisy-la-Salle, to papers such as 'The work of Patrick Modiano, a Bildungsroman which leads nowhere' and 'Psychoanalysis and autobiography: Raymond Queneau's "Chêne et chien"'. Her interests include psychosomatic and somatic medicine, psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, and child development.

Donald Campbell is a former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and past Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has written on the subjects of violence, suicide, child sexual abuse and adolescence, including a chapter in Sabbadini’s The couch and the silver screen (2003): ‘Dario Argento's Phenomena: A psychoanalytic perspective on the 'horror film' genre and adolescent development’.

Ian Christie is a film historian, writer and broadcaster, and professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published extensively on Russian cinema, Powell and Pressburger, and Scorsese, as well as on the relationship between film and the visual arts - which was the subject of his Slade Professorship lectures at Cambridge and his contribution to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Modernism exhibition, both in 2006. More recently, he has written about Salvador Dali and cinema in Tate magazine.

Elissavet Chronopoulou was born and lives in Athens. She has been working as a film editor since 1987.  In 1995 she was awarded the Hellenic Ministry of Culture State Quality Award First Prize GFC Distinction. A song is not enough is her first feature film as a director.

Emily Cooper graduated in 2006 with a degree in Fine Art: Film and Video from Sheffield Hallam University, where she directed and shot two short films: Laid Down and Flown. She is now embarking on a career as a filmmaker. Emily is passionate about psychoanalysis, which she has encountered both academically and through her own psychotherapy. Her short films and animations are often inspired by psychoanalytic insights, and she is especially interested in using the camera to explore the child's psyche and to investigate what the world might look like from another's perspective.

Diana Diamond is an associate professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City University of New York, and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical Center of Cornell University. She has published on attachment theory and research, patient-therapist attachment, personality disorders, and film and psychoanalysis. Her most recent book is Attachment and Sexuality (Taylor and Francis, 2007, co-edited with Sidney Blatt and Joseph Lichtenberg). She has also edited (with Harriet Wrye and Andrea Sabbadini) an issue of  Psychoanalytic Inquiry on European Cinema (‘Psychoanalytic Visions of Cinema/ Cinematic Visions of Psychoanalysis’). She is a psychoanalytic candidate at the New York University post-doctoral program in psychoanalysis.     

Josef Fares, film director, was born in Beirut in 1977. At ten he came to Sweden as a refugee with his parents and several siblings. He started filming at 15, and at 21 he was the youngest ever to be accepted for the director training programme at the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm. He has made around 50 short films, several of which have won prizes, and before Zozo he had directed two other feature films, both comedies, which have received public and critical acclaim. Zozo, for which he has also written the screenplay, is a project very close to him.

Sara Flanders is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, where she is a training analyst. She has edited a volume entitled The dream discourse today (1993, New Psychoanalytic Library/Routledge) and has written on a variety of subjects, including the application of psychoanalysis to the study of literature. She works in private practice in London, and at the Brent Adolescent Centre.

Maria Teresa Flores is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, full member of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society and of the IPA. She used to work as a psychiatrist and teach psychiatry and psychopathology at the Medical School of Santa Maria. Hospital in Lisbon, but since 1989 she has been working only in private practice as a psychoanalyst, with children and adults. She is also a member of SEPEA (the Société Européenne pour la Psychanalyse de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent) and the author of Narcisismo e Feminilidade [Narcissism and Femininity] (2005, Climepsi Ed.).

Peter Fonagy is a clinical psychologist and a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Director of the Research Group of Clinical, Health and Educational Psychology at UCL, Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, and consultant to the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. He is chair of the Postgraduate Education Committee of the IPA and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a large number of psychoanalytic publications, translated in many languages.

Murielle Gagnebin, the European Consultant of epff for France, is professor at the Sorbonne in the Psychoanalysis of Art and Cinema and a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP) and the IPA. She has written ten books, including Pour une esthétique psychanalytique (1994), Du divan à l’écran (1999), and Authenticité du faux (2005) (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France). She is the editor of a Collection on the psychoanalysis of art and cinema (Seyssel, Champ Vallon). She is a member of several editorial committees for international journals, including the Revue française de psychanalyse.

Cecilia Hector is a psychologist and psychoanalyst, member of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association and IPA. She has a background in academic film studies and, alongside her practice as a psychoanalyst, she has published film reviews in Psykologtidningen, a magazine reaching all Swedish psychologists twice a month.

Susann Heenen-Wolff, the European Consultant of epff for Belgium, is a training analyst with the Belgian Psychoanalytical Society and professor of clinical psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve.
For the past several years she has been the animator, in conjunction with other colleagues, of a ‘Psynema’ in Brussels – public projection of films with discussion in an outreach effort for psychoanalysis.

Michael Hudecek, film editor, director und musician, has more than 20 years of experience in film editing. Since 1992 he is the owner of the studios OFF·LINE Film Editing. He has been working with Christina Zurbrügg on his own film-and-music projects under the label of ‘GAMSfilm&music’: Film Portraits Lebensbilder – von Musikanten und anderen Lebenskünstlern, live music projekt yodel n’ bass (yodel meets modern beats). He is also the co-founder of AMT (Advanced Media Training). In 1994 he received the Austrian film award ‘Goldener Kader’ for editing; in 2005 the ‘European Film Award’ for his editing of Cachè directed by Michael Haneke, and in 2006 the ‘Goldener Drachen’ Swiss award for co-directing with Zurbrügg Bleiben oder gehen [Staying/Leaving].

Roger Kennedy is a training analyst and the current President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a consultant psychiatrist at the Cassel Hospital, honorary senior lecturer in psychiatry at the Imperial College (London) and the author of 10 books, including The elusive human subject; Psychoanalysis, history and subjectivity, and The many voices of psychoanalysis.

T. Jefferson Kline is currently professor of French in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University. His publications include Bertolucci's dream lLoom: A psychoanalytic study of cinema (1987), I film di Bertolucci (1992), Screening the Text: Intertextuality in New Wave French film (1992), and various essays on the French novel, French theater and European cinema. Kline is currently at work on The cinema and its doubles: Unraveling French film (forthcoming at Blackwell, 2009). He presented a paper on cinema and mourning at epff3 in 2007.

Ira Konigsberg is professor emeritus of Film and English at the University of Michigan. He was the first director of the University’s program in Film and Video. He has published books, essays and reviews in the fields of film, literature and psychology. He has also been a consultant for copyright issues in the film industry and has recently
co-written two documentaries co-produced by PBS affiliate Detroit Public Television. He is the editor of the new publication, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.

Marco Martins was born in1972, graduated from the Lisbon School of Cinema in 1994, and completed his academic training in the USA. In 2002 he founded his own advertising production company (Ministério dos Filmes), which has received several international gold awards in major international festivals, and in 2001, ’02 and ‘05 the award ‘La Trayectoria’ by El Ojo Iberoamericano for Best Ibero America Commercial Director. His first feature, Alice, was presented at twelve international film festivals where it received numerous awards. In 2006 he directed the short film A Longer Year, in collaboration with the Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, presented in the official selection at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007 he directed his first stage play for San Luiz National Theatre and he is now in pre-production of his second feature How to Draw a Perfect Circle.

Laura Mulvey is professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of: Visual and other pleasures (Macmillan 1989), Fetishism and curiosity (BFI 1996), Citizen Kane (in the BFI Classics series 1996) and Death twenty-four times a second: Stillness and the moving image (Reaktion Books 2006). She has made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (BFI 1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (Arts Council 1980) and with Mark Lewis Disgraced Monuments (Channel 4, 1994).

Fredi M. Murer born in Beckenried in 1940, is one of the most renowned directors in his native Switzerland. His body of film-works started in 1962 and includes shorts, feature length films and documentaries. His film Höhenfeuer [Alpine Fire], won the Golden Leopard at the 1985 Locarno International Film Festival, while Vollmond  [Full Moon] won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. Vitus was Switzerland's official entry for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.  

Marie Nyreröd is the director of the acclaimed Bergman Island (2004) and a personal friend of Ingmar Bergman.

Frederico Pereira, the European Consultant of epff for Portugal, is training analyst, full member of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society and of the IPA, member of the IPA Committee on Analytic Practice and Scientific Activities (CAPSA), permanent member of the Program Committee of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF), former President of the Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society and former member of its Training Committee. He is also full professor and director of the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisbon and has a PhD from the Sorbonne University / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Marina Perris, a former member of the epff Organising Committee, is a consultant clinical psychologist and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and is a consultant clinical psychologist in the  psychotherapy department of Springfield Hospital, Southwest London NHS Trust, where she co-leads a service for outpatients with personality disorders and leads the training of clinical psychologists in psychoanalytic theory and practice.  

Catherine Portuges is professor of comparative literature, director of the interdepartmental program in Film Studies and curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2006-07 for her project, ‘The Subjective Lens: Post-Holocaust Identities in Hungarian Film’. She publishes widely on European cinema, psychoanalysis, memory and Jewish identity; her recent lectures and curatorial activities include the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C), Open Society Archives/Central European University (Budapest), La Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), and The Barbican (London).

Bettina Reiter is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst with the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. She is the editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis, and has published papers on a variety of psychoanalytic and cultural topics, She is also the author of: Spaziergänge mit Freud. Psychoanalytische Beobachtungen [Walks with Freud; psychoanalytical observations], Vienna: Edition Steinbauer, 2007.

Pierre-Paul Renders was born in 1963. He studied classical philology and film direction, and is the author of the short film La Tendresse (1992) and of documentaries about «Médecins Sans Frontières». His masterpiece Thomas est amoureux (2001) was written by Philippe Blasband and got awards in Venice, Montréal, Angers, Gérardmer, Paris, Buenos Aires and elsewhere. His last film Comme tout le monde - le film (2006) is a socio-sentimental comedy. Pierre-Paul Renders runs workshops on writing and producing at the University of Louvain-La-Neuve and animates group work for actors.

Andrea Sabbadini, the chairman of epff and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA, is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the current honorary secretary of the British Psychoanalytical Society and honorary senior lecturer at University College London. He is also the Book Review editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited Time in psychoanalysis (Feltrinelli, 1979), The couch and the silver screen (Brunner-Routledge, 2003) and Projected shadows (Routledge, 2007), and co-edited Even paranoids have enemies (Routledge, 1998) and Psychoanalytic visions of cinema/ Cinematic visions of psychoanalysis (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2007).

Elisabeth Skale, the European Consultant of epff  for Austria, is a psychiatrist and a training psychoanalyst with the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society and the director of the Vienna Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Bruce H. Sklarew, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a co-founder and co-chair of the ‘Forum for Movies and Mind’, an interdisciplinary group that applies psychoanalytic understanding to film; co-editor of The Last Emperor: Multiple takes (Wayne St. V. Press) and Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews (U. of Mississippi Press); organizer of film workshops and discussion groups at meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association; principal investigator of the School-Based Mourning Project in Washington, D.C.

Alexander Stein is a training analyst and faculty member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA) in New York. He is an award-winning author of essays and book reviews published in the premiere psychoanalytic journals, including JAPA, IJP, American Imago, and The Psychoanalytic Review. His writings on social, political, and organizational change appear regularly in The New York Times and, more recently, in Fortune Small Business Magazine, where he is inaugurating a column on the psychodynamics of business. In addition to private practice in New York, he is active as a teacher of psychoanalytic theory, clinical technique, and writing; is a frequent presenter at international psychoanalytic and multidisciplinary conferences; a member of the directorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review, American Imago, and The Forum for Movies and Mind; and is a co-director of the Mind and Music Project.

 

Brigitte Timmermann is an Austrian historian, writer and lecturer. With degrees in world history and English from the University of Vienna and a business degree in tourist management, she works in adult education and runs her own Vienna-based educational travel and guiding business. Familiar with both British and Austrian culture and history, she has always tried to cross the ethnic divide between her native Austria and the Anglo-Saxon world. As a largely un-credited Austro-British film production, The Third Man became one of her special fields of interest. She runs internationally acclaimed themed tours of Vienna, her most popular being Vienna in the footsteps of The Third Man and has written a comprehensive study of the film, highlighting not only its making but also the intricate historic pattern underlying it.         

Pascal Verroust has been the manager of ADR Productions since 1989. He has produced about thirty feature films including Karnaval (1999) by Thomas Vincent, Red Satin (2002) by Raja Amari, Memoria del Saqueo (2004) by Fernando E. Solanas, Nina’s Home (2005) by Richard Dembo and Le candidat (2007) by Niels Arestrup, as well as several short films and seventy documentaries. Many of these films have won awards at international festivals.

Andrew Webber is reader in Modern German and Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on both film and psychoanalysis, and the relations between them, with a particular interest in Weimar cinema. His most recent books are: The European Avant-garde 1900-1940 (Polity, 2004); Cities in transition: The modern metropolis and the moving image (ed. with Emma Wilson; Wallflower, 2007) and Berlin in the Twentieth century: A cultural topography (forthcoming with CUP, 2008).

Lissa Weinstein is an associate professor in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York, a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Research and Training. Along with Arnold Wilson, she was the winner of the Heinz Hartmann Award for outstanding publication in the theory or practice of psychoanalysis by a recent graduate. She is the author of Reading David: A mother and son’s journey through the labyrinth of dyslexia (Penguin, 2003), which won the Margot Marek Prize from the International Dyslexia Association. She has published articles on the relevance of Lev Vygotsky to psychoanalysis, Freud’s theory of language and representation, the relationship between attachment and infantile sexuality, as well as clinical papers on child psychoanalysis and film. 

Shimshon Wigoder is a clinical psychologist, one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where he pursues his own analytic training, and a faculty member of the Postgraduate Psychotherapy Program of Bar Ilan University. He participated in epff2 and epff3, and has co-authored a chapter about the Israeli film ‘Or’ in Sabbadini's Projected shadows.

Franziska Ylander, the European Consultant of epff for Sweden, is a training analyst of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, working as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockholm. She has for many years been engaged in the outreach work within the European Psychoanalytic Federation and in finding ways to apply psychoanalytic thinking outside the consulting room; literature and film are among the subjects she is mostly interested in.