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The American College of Psychoanalysts is an organization established to honor outstanding physician-psychoanalyststhroughout the world. The College honors, as Fellows, psychoanalysts who, aside from completing medical school, psychiatry residency, and psychoanalytic training, have distinguished themselves. Fellows’ accomplishments encompass many areas relevant to the practice of psychoanalysis, including research, administration, lecturing, clinical practice, publication, and education.
Honorary Fellows include distinguished psychoanalysts who do not have a medical background. The College may also induct, as Members, physician-analysts who have begun to make serious contributions to the field.
The College offers Associate Membership to distinguished physicians with psychoanalytic interest; and Affiliate Membership to promising physicians taking post-residency fellowships at psychoanalytic institutes. The College is committed to mentoring the next generation of medically trained psychoanalysts, especially those who will make significant contributions to the field. The College, therefore, sponsors scholarships, scholarly presentations at annual meetings, and a newsletter.
The College’s traditions comprise cordiality, camaraderie, and intellectual honesty. To those ends, we celebrate yearly at an annual awards banquet and engage in forums, often with other scholars, covering such timely topics as neuropsychoanalysis, modern analytic theory, world politics, technique, child and infant research, and the interface of psychoanalysis with general psychiatry.
NEW ORLEANS MEETING - MAY 22, 2010:
To print out your information packet for the 41st Annual Meeting please click on the following link: Meeting Information
Ralph Beaumont, rhbeaumont3@comcast.net, the new Chairperson of the Program Committee, has informed me that Robert Michels and Joy Osofsky will be our two plenary speakers during the New Orleans meeting.
Robert Michels who is a member of ACOPsa will give a paper titled: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Past, Present and Future.
Joy Osofsky has done significant work in infant psychiatry as well as the mental health recovery following Hurricane Katrina (Joy Osofsky is from New Orleans). We look forward to receiving the title of her presentation.
For the afternoon colloguia we plan to have four presentations with time for discussions. Besides Robert Michel and Joy Osofsky we will have two other speakers. Elise Snyder will speak on psychoanalysis in China. Isil Vahip, a psychoanalyst from Izmir, Turkey, will present a paper titled: The Shadow of the Holocaust in the Presence of a Moslem Psychoanalyst.
Please put the New Orleans meeting date, May 22, 2010, on your calendars now. I hope to see many of you in New Orleans.