Edward Nersessian is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association, and Corresponding Member of Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He is co-founder and first co-editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, co-editor of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis and of Controversies in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published papers on a variety of psychoanalytic subjects and his current interest is reassessing the fundamental tenets of psychoanalytic theory.
Co-founder of the Philoctetes Center and a past member of the Paris Institute, he is the founder and current Director of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.