John Beebe, MD, author, editor, analyst, and teacher is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Lecturing on topics related to analytical psychology has taken him in person and by internet to many Jungian centers in North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and the author of Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness.

Dianne Elise, PhD Dianne Elise, Ph.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, a Training Analyst, International Psychoanalytic Association, and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her over 40 psychoanalytic publications include journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects. She has written about various aspects of creativity for 25 years, culminating in her 2019 book with Routledge, Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field — featured in a New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast, August, 2024. Her two most recent publications, Creative Becoming: Response to Palmer’s “The Aesthetic Matrix” and The Sounds of Silence: Embodied Registers, Erotic Reverie, present her contemporary thinking on creativity and libidinal vitality in clinical treatment. She is in private practice in Oakland, California.

Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He works with individuals, groups and couples and conducts psychoanalytic consultation and study groups. He is on the teaching and supervising faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, The National Training Program in Psychoanalysis, National Faculty Member, the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and lectures at other psychoanalytic institutes and clinical psychology training programs nationally and internationally. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and co-edited The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory, all published by Routledge.

Jan Ole Luuk, LLM

Henry Markman, MD  is a Supervising and Training Analyst, Faculty Member, and Co-chair of Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Faculty of  The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.  His recent book (2022) is Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice published by Routledge. Among his published work concern play in adolescent analysis, aesthetic experience, musical accompaniment in psychoanalysis, Bion’s late work, typologies of dynamic fields, and the relevance of Ferenczi’s mutual analysis experiment. He is in private practice, Berkeley, California, where he also consults and leads study groups.

Sandy Pepper, MD has been a practicing psychiatrist in San Francisco.  His interest in Wilfred Bion goes back to the early 1980s. After a long training, Sandy eventually qualified for membership at the CG Jung Institute of San Francisco in 2007, where he is now President-Elect.

Paul Watsky PhD is past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and current Poetry Editor of the Jung Journal. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Inverness, California. He specializes in issues concerning creativity productivity in the Arts and Sciences.