American Psychoanalytic Association

11/30/2025

📣 Tomorrow, 12/1, is the last day to apply for APsA’s 2026 Research Training Program. This two-day in-person workshop takes place on January 26–27 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, right before the National Meeting, and offers intensive mentoring for psychoanalytically oriented research projects. Learn more at the link below!

This training program is a needed initiative to introduce a rigorous research approach into psychoanalysis. APsA will hold a two-day, in-person Research Training Program on January 26 and 27, 2026 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, just before the Association’s 2026 National Meeting. Individual...

11/25/2025

In a newly published, wide-ranging Q&A, APsA interviewed the 2026 National Meeting plenary speakers Donnel Stern and Ken Corbett. We invited them to revisit core psychoanalytic questions such as the unformulated experience, the primal father, and the ethics of care.

The interview asks how each speaker arrived at the central ideas of their plenaries, what drew them back to these questions at this stage in their careers, and how their thinking challenges or expands traditional psychoanalytic models. It explores how relationships, kinship, and the social world shape psychic life; why psychoanalysis matters in this cultural moment; how their perspectives have evolved over decades of scholarship; and what they hope clinicians, teachers, and writers carry forward from their 2026 plenaries.

Read the entire conversation and prepare for their plenaries at the 2026 National Meeting at https://lnkd.in/edubFH4M.

11/24/2025

Join us in congratulating Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D., recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Paper Award for “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious.” The paper explores how temporal experience weaves through unconscious life in ways that defy simple binaries, an approach very much in the spirit of Dr. Pine’s innovative legacy. The paper will be presented virtually on January 13, 2026 (8–9:30 p.m.) at an event hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc Program.

Read more about the paper here: https://apsa.org/2025-fred-pine-paper-award-winner-announced/ and check out the virtual event here: https://apsa.org/event/2025-fred-pine-paper-award-presentation/

11/21/2025

2025 Research Training Program participants are sharing how the RTP shaped their research, strengthened their skills, and connected them with a supportive community of mentors and peers.

If you’re developing a project (or hoping to start one!), the 2026 RTP is now accepting proposals. Learn more and consider applying to join next year’s cohort at https://apsa.org/fellowships-awards/research-training-program/.

11/20/2025

Since 2024, the Advanced Practice in Nursing Tuition Support Award, sponsored by the APsA Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee, has provided two annual awards to eligible Advanced Practice Registered Nurses enrolled in an APsA-approved training program. We are happy to announce the 2025 recipients, listed alphabetically by last name: Nadège Dorcelly, DNP, PMHNP-BC and Ubaka Ojiba, MSN, PMHNP.

Please join us in congratulating these two on their education journeys. Read more about this award and what Dorcelly and Ojiba have to say about winning at https://apsa.org/congratulations-to-the-2025-advanced-practice-in-nursing-tuition-support-award-recipients/

11/18/2025

📣 The APsA Fellowship portal is open for the 2026-2027 class! Deadline to submit materials is March 6, 2026.📣

Are you, or someone you know, an early-career educator or researcher interested in psychoanalysis and how it relates to their field? We invite future leaders and educators in the fields of academia, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and multidisciplinary endeavors to apply for this unique opportunity to learn about psychoanalysis and engage with the psychoanalytic communities.

Benefits include:
· APsA mentor to facilitate your professional development
· Complimentary registration to APsA’s 115th Virtual Annual Meeting (June 2026)
· Expenses, including travel, hotel (double occupancy) and meals paid for APsA’s 2027 National Meeting
· Opportunities to present clinical, research and other material at the 2027 National Meeting
· Subscriptions to various psychoanalytic publications

Read through all application details online at apsa.org/fellowships-awards/apsafellowship2627

11/15/2025

In his recent op-ed for the New York Times, APsA member Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD, FIPA challenges us to step back from “doing and fixing” and instead rediscover our emotional depths. What have you been leaping to fix?

Read the full op/ed "I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us." published on November 11, 2025.

🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/opinion/iphone-therapy-meditation-mindfulness.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.J0qS.Yb0-CiWw6yBs&smid=url-share

11/14/2025

Issue 8 of The CAI Report: Insights and Commentary at the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and AI is out now! Read it at https://apsa.org/thecaireport/.

In this issue:
From the Editor by Dr. Alexander Stein, PhD

A Note from the Co-Chairs of the President’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence by Todd Essig, PhD + Amy Levy, Psy.D.

Dear Dr. Danielle, answers a question from Not a Bot by Danielle Knafo, PhD

A Memory of Memories (an AI short film) 2025 by Luca Babini

The Great Illusionist and the Digital Double: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Artificial Intelligence in the Advent of a Hyperbolic Reality by Filipe Leão Miranda and Joana Pizarro Bravo

GenAI’s Promethean Paradox by Brett Macfarlane

11/11/2025

Join the conversations shaping contemporary psychoanalysis! Registration is now open for APsA’s 2026 National Meeting, featuring two plenaries, 130+ sessions and 45.5 CE credits. This year’s meeting at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel is one you won't want to miss! Secure your spot today: https://apsa.org/2026nmregistration/

Donnel Stern, Ph.D. Friday, January 30, 2026 9:30 a.m. What Does “Unconscious” Mean? Unformulated Experience and the Interpersonal Field

11/07/2025

APsA is pleased to invite applications for its in-person 2026 Research Training Program. This intensive two-day program helps psychoanalytic researchers refine project proposals and strengthen their path toward successful funding.

Requirements for Participation:
• Interest in psychoanalytically oriented research
• A study idea or plan (treatment process/outcome/mechanism focus)
• $150 participant fee

Participants receive mentorship from distinguished faculty: Manfred Beutel, MD; Eric A. Fertuck, Ph.D.; Barbara Milrod, MD; and John C. Markowitz, MD.

Apply by December 1, 2025!

Learn more about the program, application materials, and how psychoanalysis continues to expand its research frontiers at https://apsa.org/fellowships-awards/research-training-program/.

11/06/2025

“An analytic evaluation is always individualized.” In child psychoanalysis, clinicians explore not only immediate triggers but also deeper antecedents (and even the antecedents to those antecedents!) to understand the biological, environmental, and developmental factors shaping a child’s psychological landscape. Every child’s story is unique, requiring a nuanced, comprehensive approach.

🎧 Listen to the full podcast episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/wDndg1R_hCg?si=3oul0Yr5rwko2HJV

11/05/2025

We’re thrilled to share that the official website for APsA’s 2026 National Meeting is now live! Meeting registration will open next Tuesday, November 11, at 12:00 PM ET.

Take this week to explore the Preliminary Program, the Committee schedule, and social events, including a chamber concert, a member art exhibition, and a new addition for this year: a dinner dance!

If you’re an active APsA member, consider taking part in the Colleague Outreach Opportunity Program, where you can invite a colleague who has never attended (or hasn’t attended since 2016) to attend the National Meeting at no charge.

We hope to see you from January 27 to February 1, 2026, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco! Check out (and be sure to bookmark) the site* for easy planning!

*We highly recommend viewing the site on a desktop for the best viewing experience.

Donnel Stern, Ph.D. Friday, January 30, 2026 9:30 a.m. What Does “Unconscious” Mean? Unformulated Experience and the Interpersonal Field