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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.

2013 Annual Meeting News

When: April 19-21, 2013
Where: Charlottesville, Va

Dear Friends,
Please click the link below, and you will find the invitation to this year's annual meeting of the American College of Psychoanalysts in Charlotte, VA. It is a joint meeting with the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society (of the ApsaA>, Friday night, April 19 and Saturday morning, April 20 and promises to be fascinating and enjoyable.
The meeting is at the Bor's Head Inn and Spa, just a few minutes from Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home. University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson in Greco-Roman style is also nearby, and the home of James and Dolly Madison. Both are open for touring. Charlottesville is easily reachable by air, nonstop, from major cities, such as Atlanta, Washington DC, New York(LGA), Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Charlottesville is about 2+ hours from DC by car.
Friday, April 19, after our banquet, Irwin Marcus, MD, one of our esteemed Fellows, will present the "Vamik Volkan MD lecture" on Marriage, Loss and Conflict.
The following morning, Saturday, April 20, Irwin will interview Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by internationally known humanities scholar and radio star, Dr. Clay Jenkinson (see www.jeffersonhour.org, also on NPR on Tues at 1:00 pm EST.
If you opt for the short (a few minutes) trip to Monticello on Saturay afternoon, April 20, you will join many of us with Clay Jenkinson for more discussion and tours of the Jefferson home.
We have reserved a special block of rooms at a discounted rate. Please note the CORRECTED discount code VAPSYC when you call the Boar's Head. You may arrive as early as Thurs Apr 18, and the discount runs through Monday morning, April 22. Any combination of nights is possible, but please book before March 4 to receive the discounted rate.
Call 434-972-6097 and mention group code VAPSYC to receive discounted rate.
New - Instructions to make online reservations from Boar's Head website per Susan Buckley, Group Sales Assistant:
Go to www.boarsheadinn.com and on the home page, select the dates and then "book now". This will prompt you to another page, where you will select "Group" in the second box(drop down box) where it currently reads "Negotiated Rate". When selecting group, this will prompt you for a code, your code will be VAPSYC. After entering this, you will reach your designated group page, and proceed with your selections.
*Please note, the block of rooms has been set up for the dates of April 18 check in and April 22 check out. If you need dates before or after, or if you need more than two rooms, please call the Boar's Head 800 number below to speak with a Reservation agent.
If anyone would prefer to reserve via phone, please call Boar's Head Reservations at 1-800-476-1988 8am - 8pm for assistance.
Boar's Head is a beautiful, full service spa, with a golf course in the Blue Ridge Mountains, pretty tennis courts, and walking trails around spectacular lake. Dawn hot-air balloon rides over the mountains are a popular activity. Check it all out at www.boarshead.com.
If you would like to pay online, please go to http://vpsas.org/aprilpay.php and you may use your credit card or paypal.
Or the old-fashioned way, you may certainly send a check for the activities you prefer (click link below) to our executive secretary, Frances Bell, at P.O. Box 570218, Dallas, TX 75357.
If you have any questions at all, or run into any snags in registering, please feel free to call me personally on my cell phone, 757-679-3000. You may reach my office manager Jean, weekday mornings at 757-463-3000(Virginia Beach, VA). Or you may call Frances at 972-613-0985(Dallas, TX).
I look forward to seeing everyone there!

Warmly,
Jerry

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