Sam Guzzardi is a member and graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. His academic writing on gender and sexuality has one several prizes, including the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Tiresias Prize of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He has a diverse practice where he is curious about questions of queerness, identity, development, and trauma. Sam's scholarship often revolves around his interest in comparative psychoanalysis and in placing psychoanalytic theory in dialogue with ideas from other traditions, including disciplines such as queer theory, post-colonial studies, performance studies and literature. His most recent paper, "Laplanche in the Consulting Room: An Emerging Paradigm for Psychoanalytic Therapeutic Action" is to be published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in October of 2025.