David and Jill Scharff

David Scharff, MD is co-founder and co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University. He is one of the most internationally recognized figures in psychoanalysis and Object Relations therapy. He has written and edited 19 books with his wife, Jill Scharff, on individual, family and couples Object Relations therapy, including Object Relations Theory and Practice and Object Relations Family Therapy.

Jill Savege Scharff, MD is co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute and Chair of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School and Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Her private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland is concentrated on psychoanalysis with children and adults, and on couple and family therapy.