May 2002
Dear AAPI Member:
We are about to begin a new membership year for AAPI, and I want to request
your continued support for this important organization. With 21 institute
members and almost 300 individual members, AAPI has grown substantially this
year. It is important that you now renew your membership so that we can keep
this momentum going.
Within the next few weeks you will be receiving the brochure announcing our
second annual conference in New York City on September 28, 2002. The conference
will use the comparative psychoanalytic format that proved so successful in our
previous conference. It will feature a case presentation by Joseph Newirth with
a focus on transference/countertransference issues. The case will then be
discussed by the following panelists: Darlene Ehrenberg, James Gooch, Irwin
Hoffman, Theodore Jacobs, and Estelle Shane. Your membership in AAPI will allow
you to take advantage of reduced rates for the conference and to join us
afterwards for a membership meeting and reception.
In addition, your support is vital to us this year as we face some important
decisions in choosing a direction for AAPI and our work as psychoanalysts. The
Psychoanalytic Consortium has recently published the standards that would allow
AAPI and other similar organizations to join the Consortium. Your Executive
Board is reviewing these standards and seeking appropriate means to respond to
them. We will be reporting more to you about this issue through your
representatives, in our own updates, and at the membership meeting on September
28. By continuing your membership in AAPI you will be helping us with these
efforts.
At our last Executive Board meeting in New York during the Division 39 APA
conference we reviewed the budgetary needs of AAPI. In order to provide the
administrative help we require as an organization and to publicize our efforts
and seek more members, we faced the difficult fact that we need to raise our
annual dues. We voted to increase the annual dues for both individual members
and institute members. The institute members will now pay $350 instead of $250
per year, and the individual members will pay $75 instead of $50. Candidates in
psychoanalytic institutes will pay $35 instead of $25. We are sorry to have to
include these increases in your dues statement, but we have to be realistic
about our financial needs. We hope you will understand that this is still a
small price to pay to support our goals and mission.
Please print and complete this form
and mail it today to our administrator, Donna Bamber, at the address listed
below. If you prefer, you can use a Mastercard or Visa.
Thank you again for your support. I look forward to seeing you at our
September 28 conference.
Sincerely,
Mary Beth M. Cresci, Ph.D., ABPP
President, AAPI
P.S. Contributions to AAPI are tax deductible. If financially feasible, we
would be most appreciative of your making a contribution as well. Thank you for
mailing in your renewal today!
