Daniela Lucarelli is psychologist, psychoanalyst, full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), and an expert in psychoanalysis with children and adolescents. She is a member of the EFPP Board and of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She teaches in the ASNE-SIPSIA Specialization Programme in Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Couples in Rome. She is editor of the 'International Review of Psychoanalysis of Couple and Family'.

Anna Maria Nicolo, MD, is a member of the board of the Representatives of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and since 2005 has been chair of the forum for adolescence of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (FEP). She is a founder member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples (SIPsIA), scientific secretary of the Istituto Winnicott (ASNE-SIPSIA), and member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). She was President of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis for Couples and Families (PCF), and co-founder of the AIPCF (International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis). She was co-editor of the collection 'Contemporary Psychoanalysis', director of the journal 'Interazioni', and co-founder and former director of the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF).