American Psychoanalytic Association https://apsa.org Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:56:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Announcing the JAPA Paper Prize (2024) and New Author Prize https://apsa.org/announcing-the-japa-paper-prize-2024-and-new-author-prize/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:40:55 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11973659 New York, NY — January 31, 2026 — The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Paper Prize (2024) and New Author Prize, honoring outstanding scholarship published in the journal over the past year. Selected through discussion and an anonymous vote of the JAPA Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors, the JAPA Prize for Best Paper has…

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]]> Announcing the 2026 Ralph Roughton Paper Award Winner https://apsa.org/announcing-the-2026-ralph-roughton-paper-award-winner/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:57:32 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972919 New York, NY – December 11, 2025 –The American Psychoanalytic Association is pleased to announce that Michael Perlman, MFA (New York, NY) has been selected as the 2026 Ralph Roughton Paper Award recipient for the manuscript Ready or Not: The Queer Experience of Being Found. Established in 1998 in honor of Ralph Roughton, M.D., founding Chairperson of APsA’s Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues…

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]]> Announcing the 2026 Book Prize Winner https://apsa.org/announcing-the-2026-book-prize-winner/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:58:36 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11973631 New York, NY — January 29, 2026 — The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) is pleased to announce that Alexander Kriss, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2026 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association for his book Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press, 2024). The award winner was announced on January 29, 2026, during the Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize…

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]]> 2025 Excellence in Journalism Award Recipient and Special Recognition Honoree https://apsa.org/2025-excellence-in-journalism-award-recipient-and-special-recognition-honoree/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:03:53 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11973634

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]]> Welcoming Adelphi University to APsA! https://apsa.org/welcoming-adelphi-university-to-apsa/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:42 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972912 New York, NY — December 10, 2025 — The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) is pleased to announce that the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy has been formally approved as an APsA Approved Training Institute, following Board of Directors approval on October 12, 2025. This designation marks an important milestone both for Adelphi and for APsA’s…

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]]> Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture: 2026 Winner Announced https://apsa.org/peter-loewenberg-essay-prize-2026-winner-announced/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:32:10 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972906 New York, NY — December 9, 2025 —The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) is pleased to announce that Ekta Srivastava, Ph.D. (Gurgaon, India) has been awarded the 2026 Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture for her paper, “Cumulative Trauma, Survival and Psychic Placemaking Through Interspecies Kinship.” The Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize (formerly the CORST Essay Prize)…

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]]> APsA Announces Fellowship Portal Opening for 2026 – 2027 Class https://apsa.org/fellowship-portal-open-2627-class/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:24:52 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972598 APsA’s Fellowship Program supports early-career professionals who demonstrate strong potential as future leaders and educators in academia, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social work, nurse practitioners, and multidisciplinary endeavors. Fellows gain concentrated exposure to psychoanalytic ideas while engaging with both local and national psychoanalytic communities.

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]]> Psychotherapist Committee Update: Fall/Winter 2025 https://apsa.org/psychotherapist-committee-update-fall-winter-2025/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:35:25 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972753 by Margo P Goldman, MD and Kathryn Fleming-Ives, MD We are pleased to report continued progress in Psychotherapists’ transition from longstanding Associate Membership to full Clinical Membership in APsA. When passed in 2023, the Expanded Membership Bylaw change granted full Clinical Membership to all current Psychotherapist Associates and opened the door for qualified psychoanalytic…

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]]> Psychotherapy Department: Our Home at APsA https://apsa.org/psychotherapy-department-our-home-at-apsa/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:46:47 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972769  By Richard (Rick) Summers MD, Psychotherapy Department Co-Chair APsA’s inclusion of psychotherapists as a member category in 1998 eventually led to several structural and administrative changes, one of which was the subsequent formation of a Psychotherapy Department in 2010. The Department’s founders’ (Carol Reichenthal PhD and Richard Fox MD) envisioned the Department as a way to boost the…

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]]> PsiAN Update: Fall/Winter 2025 https://apsa.org/psian-update-fall-winter-2025/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:50:16 +0000 https://apsa.org/?p=11972772 By Linda Michaels PsyD, MBA Here is the latest update on the initiatives, petitions, tools, media mentions, and original research from Psychotherapy Action Network. In April, Psychotherapy Action Network joined with the Clinical Social Work Association (CSWA) to raise the alarm about a company called 7 Cups of Tea that has been using therapists’ online data, without our consent or any…

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