ASSOCIATION FOR AUTONOMOUS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTES (AAPI), incorporated (May, 1999), is the first national and international interdisciplinary and multitheoretical psychoanalytic association with autonomous psychoanalytic Institutes as affiliate members and psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates as individual members. A psychoanalytic Institute is considered to be autonomous if it does not belong to a psychoanalytic association that dictates and overseas the training program. AAPI is not interested in dictating policy to Institutes, but in preserving their autonomy. AAPI is a professional association, not an accrediting organization. AAPI is democratically governed with each affiliate Institute and the individual members electing two representatives to the Executive Board. The Executive Board, in turn, elects the officers for two-year terms. Currently with 14 affiliate Institutes, AAPI serves to enrich the affiliate Institutes and the individual members in the pursuit of psychoanalytic education, research, and continued development of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Importantly AAPI represents affiliate Institutes and individual members in professional advocacy matters. With sufficient membership, AAPI plans to request representation on the Psychoanalytic Consortium that is developing training criteria. AAPI organizes scientific meetings, represents psychoanalysis to the lay community, and will develop an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the development and comparison of psychoanalytic models of theory and practice. As an individual member, you are listed in a national and international directory. We invite autonomous psychoanalytic Institutes, psychoanalysts, and psychoanalytic candidates to join AAPI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION,

PLEASE CONTACT:

Jackie Legg, Administrative Director

AAPI

1800 Fairburn Ave. #203 · Los Angeles, CA 90025

(310) 470-2478 or (818) 932-9452 or (310) 842-6037

Fax: (310) 475-6296