Summary Fact Sheet
What is AAPI?
1. AAPI is a national and international psychoanalytic association
(incorporated May, 1999) of autonomous psychoanalytic institutes with affiliate
institutes and individual psychoanalysts as members.
2. Currently AAPI consists of close to 300 individual psychoanalyst members
and 21 autonomous (interdisciplinary and multitheoretical) affiliate Institutes.
Both national and international these affiliate Institutes annually train a
significantly large number of psychoanalysts.
3. A psychoanalytic Institute is considered to be autonomous if it does not
belong to a psychoanalytic association that dictates and oversees the
psychoanalytic training program (as described in
AAPI's Position Paper).
Why do we need AAPI?
1. In providing a psychoanalytic association network for autonomous
Institutes and individual psychoanalysts, AAPI enhances the reputation of each
Institute and fosters national and international networking of individual
psychoanalysts and affiliate Institutes.
2. AAPI represents affiliate Institutes and individual psychoanalytic members
in professional advocacy matters.
3. AAPI offers annual conferences and other scientific meetings, and is
considering initiation of a new journal emphasizing comparative psychoanalysis.
4. Those psychoanalysts who are individual members are listed in a national
and international roster that is used by AAPI members to make referrals across
the country and throughout the world.
5. AAPI offers its affiliate Institutes and its individual members, and
psychoanalysts at large, a powerful alternative to the American Psychoanalytic
Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association, whose priorities
are different from our own.
Who can join AAPI?
1. To become a member of AAPI a psychoanalytic Institute must be autonomous
(not a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association or the International
Psychyoanalytic Association) and its psychoanalytic training program must meet
the minimum criteria (listed in AAPI's Membership
Criteria).
2. All graduates, faculty, and supervisors of affiliate Institutes are
encouraged to apply for individual membership. Psychoanalytic candidates of
affiliate Institutes can join as Associate Members. Individual psychoanalysts
who have graduated and are certified from a psychoanalytic Institute that meets
our minimum criteria but is not an affiliate Institute are also encouraged to
apply for individual membership.
Representation and Organization
1. Each affiliate Institute elects two representatives to the Executive
Board. The individual members additionally elect two representatives to the
Executive Board.
2. The Executive Board currently elects a President, President-Elect,
Treasurer, and Secretary for two-year terms. Past officers continue to serve on
the Executive Board for two years and past Presidents serve for five years.
How does AAPI differ from other psychoanalytic associations?
1. AAPI is an interdisciplinary international psychoanalytic association
where all psychoanalysts of the various mental health disciplines have equal
status. (In contrast, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American
Academy of Psychoanalysis are dominated by psychiatry; Division 39 of the
American Psychological Association is comprised mainly of psychologists who may
be psychoanalysts or not. The Membership Committee of Psychoanalysis in Clinical
Social Work is comprised of social work psychoanalysts.)
2. Once an Institute is accepted, AAPI does not attempt to dictate or
directly influence the Institute, its psychoanalytic training program, or
theoretical dominance. (In contrast, the American Psychoanalytic Association is
involved in the certification of candidates and the appointment of supervisors
and training analysts and the International Psychoanalytic Association, while
interdisciplinary, also attempts to dictate policies to be followed by the
member Institutes. Both associations have attempted to influence theoretical
dominance.)
3. Although AAPI has established minimal criteria for psychoanalytic
training, AAPI does not consider itself currently to be an accrediting
association. (The National Association for Accreditation of Psychoanalysts, NAAP,
is a self-proclaimed accrediting association and its criteria for psychoanalytic
training are rigorous as compared to those of AAPI.)
4. AAPI is an association comprised of psychoanalytic Institutes and
psychoanalysts as individual members. (In contrast, the International Federation
of Psychoanalytic Societies is a federation of the psychoanalytic societies that
are comprised of the alumnae of each Institute and individual members.)
21 Current Affiliate Institute Members
Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Los Angeles, CA
Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington, D.C.
Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey, So. Orange,
N.J.
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, NY
Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Se’
Psicoanalisi Relazionale, Roma, Italia
(Training Institute in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational
Psychoanalysis, Rome, Italy)
International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, Chevy Chase, MD
Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Prarie Village, KS
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, Ann Arbor, MI
National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, NY
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Newport, CA
New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New
York, NY
Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, NY
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, New York, NY
Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Toronto, Canada
Training Institute for Mental Health, New York, NY
Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy, New York, NY
Wiener Kreis Fur Psychoanalyse und Selbst Psychologie, Wien (Vienna Circle
for Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology, Vienna, Austria)
What are the AAPI dues?
