Argentina
Luis Hornstein
Physician and psychoanalyst. He has served as advisor to the Mental Health Department of the City of Buenos Aires and as Co-Director, together with Mauricio Goldenberg, of the Centro de Estudios Psicoanalíticos de Caracas between 1978 and 1983. He was President of the Southern Psychoanalytic Society and of the Foundation for Research on Depression. Recipient of the 2006 Konex Platinum Award for lifetime achievement in the humanities. Visiting professor at numerous universities and institutions across Latin America and Europe. Author of a foundational body of work in contemporary psychoanalysis, including Theory of Ideologies and Psychoanalysis, Narcissism, Identity, Otherness, Intersubjectivity and Clinical Practice, Depressions: Affects and Moods of Living, The Current Crossroads of Psychoanalysis, and his recent book Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice: From Dogma to Critical Thought, among other titles. His work has been decisive in articulating clinical practice, theory, and contemporary cultural and social issues, and has significantly shaped the trajectories and transformations of Latin American psychoanalytic thought.
Argentina
Norberto G. Rabinovich
Has practiced and taught psychoanalysis for more than 45 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also did so in Santiago, Chile, for a decade. He was a founding member of the Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires in 1974 and served as a Member Analyst there until 1989. He is also a founding member of the groups “Letrafonía, espacio psicoanalítico” and “Lacantera freudiana”.
He has published El Nombre del Padre. Articulación entre la letra, la ley y el goce (1999), El inconsciente lacaniano (2006), Lágrimas de lo real. Un estudio sobre el goce (2007), La letra y la verdad (2014), and El pecado original del psicoanálisis (2017).
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Brazil
Jô Gondar
Full Professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Psychoanalyst and full member of the Psychoanalytic Circle of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Executive Committees of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies and the International Sándor Ferenczi Network. Co-author, with Eliana Reis, of Com Ferenczi: clínica, subjetivação e política and Com Ferenczi: o coletivo na clínica. Her most recent book is Ferenczi and the Political Dimension of Psychoanalysis (2026).
Spain
Miguel Ángel González Torres
Training Analyst at the Madrid Psychoanalytic Centre. Member of the Executive Committee of the IFPS and of the Editorial Board of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Head of Psychiatry at Basurto University Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurosciences at the University of the Basque Country. His clinical and research work focuses on personality pathology, identity and aggression. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. Author of Who am I? Exploring Identity in Sexuality, Politics and Art.
Lithuania
Darius Leskauskas
MD, PhD. Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Post-Doctoral Studies in Psychotherapy at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with over twenty-five years of clinical experience. Member of the Executive Committee of the IFPS. His current research focuses on the impact of cyber-technologies on adolescent development.
Chile
Carlos Peña González
Lawyer, PhD in Philosophy and Master in Sociology. Principal of Diego Portales University and university professor. Weekly columnist for El Mercurio and Vice President of CIPER Chile. Board member of the Nicanor Parra Foundation, Councillor of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, and Board Member of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. His work focuses on philosophy, culture and critical analysis of contemporary public life.
