May 20, 2000
Dear Psychoanalytic Institute Members:
Your Institute is an affiliate member of the Association for Autonomous
Psychoanalytic Institutes (AAPI), incorporated May, 1999. AAPI is an
international psychoanalytic association, democratically governed by its
affiliate psychoanalytic Institutes and individual members. We are writing to
update you of AAPI’s development and to urge you to join as an individual
member.
Notices about the formation of AAPI went out in July and to the members of
the affiliates over the past nine months. We are pleased to announce that AAPI
now has 13 affiliate Institutes and over 100 individual members. Outreach to
other Institutes and their members will, hopefully, keep AAPI growing at a
fast pace. We are planning AAPI’s first scientific and membership meeting
for March, 2001.
Why do we need AAPI? To put it succinctly, AAPI consists of a number of
highly reputed autonomous interdisciplinary and multitheoretical
psychoanalytic Institutes nationally and internationally which annually train
a significantly large number of psychoanalysts. AAPI provides a needed
associational network for these Institutes and their individual members which
serves to enhance the reputation of each Institute and fosters national and
international networking of the Institutes and their members. AAPI will
represent affiliate Institutes and their members in professional advocacy
matters, organize scientific meetings, and, in the future, will produce a
journal. As an individual member, you will be listed in a national and
international roster that will be used by everyone in AAPI to make referrals
across the country and the world. AAPI, in our vision, offers its affiliate
Institutes and their 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, and
can potentially rival their size and influence.
Why do autonomous Institutes and their members need a power base?
Currently the most important professional advocacy matter is the formation of
the Psychoanalytic Consortium. The decisions emanating from it will affect the
psychoanalytic landscape within the United States and internationally. The
Consortium, as you probably know, is a committee, comprised of representatives
from the American Psychoanalytic Association, American Academy of
Psychoanalysis, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and the
National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. The
Consortium’s primary goal is to develop at the national (that is, the United
States) level criteria for accreditation of psychoanalytic institutes and for
certification of psychoanalysts. The Consortium’s recommendations will, most
likely, affect state licensure, affect which Institutes will qualify for
Federal educational grants, and affect Federal and private insurance benefits
for patients. Thus, it is urgent that we, whose training criteria differ from
some of the other advocacy groups, are well represented on the Consortium. To
request representation on the Consortium, one of AAPI’s immediate aims,
requires a professional organization with a minimum of 300 members. Thus, we
wish to enlarge our membership as quickly as possible. We appeal to you to
join AAPI now!
The 13 affiliate Institute members are as follows:
 | American Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York City |
| Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles |
| Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, Washington D.C. |
| Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City |
| Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Se’
Psicoanalisi Relazionale, Roma |
| Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis |
| Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, Minneapolis |
| National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York City |
| National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York City |
| Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Newport, CA |
| Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York City |
| Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis |
| Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy, New York City |
AAPI is an interdisciplinary association with affiliate Institutes and
their members that aims to foster, through dialogue, the continual advancement
of psychoanalysis. Both theoretically and politically we have the opportunity
to impact significantly the development of psychoanalysis nationally and
internationally. To individual members AAPI offers an opportunity to
participate in these important activities as well as to network nationally and
internationally. We hope you will join us!
Sincerely,
James Fosshage, Ph.D., President
Mary Beth Cresci, Ph.D., President-Elect
Mary Gales, M.D., Secretary
Kenneth Frank, Ph.D., Treasurer
Morton Shane, M.D., Past President
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