Caroline Sehon, MD, FABP, is director of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and chair of its Overseas Programs for Jiandanxinli, the My Therapist platform in China. At IPI, she is a supervising child and adult psychoanalyst and past chair of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training. At the American Psychoanalytic Association, she serves on its Executive Committee as Secretary. She is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Author of articles and book chapters on adult and child psychoanalysis, couple and family therapy, her private practice is in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, where she works with individuals, couples, and families.

Charles Ashbach, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in the Philadelphia area.  He is a founding faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and is co-author of Object Relations, the Self and the Group as well as Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter.  His interests include the study of narcissism, depression and the problem of chronic resistance in treatment.