Eszter Berán was born in Budapest, Hungary. She has completed her Master's Degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA, and her Ph.D. degree in psychology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2010.  She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Psychology at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest.

Unoka Zsolt M.D., Ph.D., psychiatrist and psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, member of the  Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society. Deputy director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the head of the Psychotherapy ward at Semmelweis University Budapest. Published papers in the area of psychoanalytic process research, and social cognition in borderline personality disorder.