Dr Francisco O'Ryan is a psychiatrist, University of Chile, psychoanalyst, past president of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association(APCh), training analyst and past director of theInstitute of the APCh, past director of the journal of the association. He has held many senior positions in the APCh. He lives in Santiago where he has a private practice.

He has been teaching at the institute of the APCh for the last 25 years, and participated in ILAS which is the IPA organization for teaching psychoanalysis in pre-IPA organizations in differentlatin american countries . In the chilean institute he teaches different topics in particular technique (transference-countertransference, frame controversies etc.) and supervises analyst in training.

He is member of the China sponsoring Committee.

He has published several articles in particular related to panic attacks and anxiety and clinical issues.

Dr Vivienne Elton is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, past president, and training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she has a private practice. She has held many senior positions in the Australian Psychoanalytical Society.

She is committed to psychoanalytic education, has written curriculum for APAS, and taught extensively, including infant observation in China, and works in the humanitarian field. She is a member of the Sponsoring Committee for the China Study Group of the IPA, Vice President of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists and Chair of the IPA, the Humanitarian Field committee.

She is first editor for “Trauma, Flight and Migration – Psychoanalytic Perspectives, published by Routledge in 2022, and has published on the topic of infant observation and medical politics in Australia.

Nancy R. Goodman, PhD, isa trainingand supervising analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC, and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Nancyholds many positions with the CFS and the IPA. She isChair of the China Sponsoring Committee of the IPA working with the China Study Group and is a Member of the Asia Pacific Planning Committee of the IPA. She has served on all committees of the CFS Training Institute in Washington, DC, including being permanent faculty. Dr. Goodman is also faculty for the Wuhan, China psychotherapy Training Program and supervisor in the ZhengDao two-year psychodynamic psychotherapy training program. She is involved with a new pilot program in DC for distance psychoanalytic training when in person is not possible.

Many publications reflect an interest in trauma and symbolizing processes as well as female development and enactments.Publicationsinclude the following edited volumes:Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today: Femininity, Desire, and Agency (2022), (with Cereijido and Ellman), Selected Unpublished Papers of Jacob A. Arlow: Conversations with the Unconscious(2021), (with Kim Kleinman), Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide (2017)(with Paula Ellman);The Courage to Fight Violence against Women (2017)(with Paula Ellman);Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives (2013)(with Basseches and Ellman), andThe Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust (2012)(with Marilyn Meyers).Nancy is founder and Director of the online Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum:www.virtualpsychoanalyticmuseum.org with IPBooks. She maintains a psychoanalytic practicein Bethesda,Maryland and online.

中国学组正式成立之后，ING按照IPA的传统派遣3位专家组成IPA Sponsor Committee(IPA促进委员会)指导和带领中国学组开展工作和学习。2021年12月11日，IPA Sponsor Committee的两位专家来自美国的Nancy Goodman教授、来自澳大利亚的Vivienne Elton教授 与7位IPA中国学组成员召开了第一次学组联合工作会议，随后另一位IPA专家，来自智利的Francisco O' Ryan 博士也在学组的第六次工作会议时加入。

图为IPA Sponsor Committee专家与中国学组组员召开第一次学组联合工作会议。

2021年IPA主席Dr Virginia Ungar和副主席Dr Sergio Nick 任内，中国学组正式成立，

随后继任的IPA正副主席也将中国学组的成立放在非常重要的位置。副主席Dr Sergio Nick 亲自指导了中国大陆学组的每一步发展，并为中国大陆学组在成长中遇到的困难排忧解难，在IPA董事会和ING中做了很多协调工作。他为中国大陆学组的每一个进步感到由衷的高兴，他的这种态度给了在探索中前进的中国大陆学组莫大的鼓励，使其在困难的学组成立过程中稳步前进。

在中国大陆达到足够数量的IPA认证精神分析师后，IPA 国际新团体委员会(ING)也积极推进中国学组的发展，ING旨在促进和确保新组织向正确科学的方向发展，其几任主席Maria Teresa Hooke、Cláudio Laks Eizirik和Dr Arthur Leonoff为中国学组的组建、发展积极奔走，有力促进了中国学组发展的进程，IPA的历任主席如Charles Hanly、Stefano Bolonini等也大力支持中国学组的发展。

IPA CC的第一任主席是Peter. Loewenberg教授，第二任主席是Sverre. Varvin教授(从2013年任职至今)，其组员(2021)有Sverre, Varvin (主席)、Alf Gerlach(副主席)、Medeleine Bachner, Clara Nemas, Minnie Dastur, Rebecca Mair, Prager Jeffrey, 林涛。顾问有杨蕴萍、童俊、仇剑崟、Tomas Pleankers等。

2008年，中国大陆诞生了第一批候选人，IPA的培训及管理模式正式在中国开启。为了开启中国大陆IPA候选人的培训， 2007年，IPA在中国大陆成立了IPA中国委员会(IPA China Committee，简称IPA CC)，可以说中国学组是在IPA CC的培育下诞生的。IPA CC旨在促进精神分析及IPA在中国大陆的发展，上述几组候选人的选拔、培训等工作在中国学组成立之前均由IPA CC承担，他们为大多数中国大陆候选人选派个人分析师(Irmgard Dettbarn，Hermann Schultz，Diana Litvinoff)及理论授课教师，有少部分候选人在国外完成个人分析。