Our Mission
The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP) is an organization of psychiatrists dedicated to using, teaching, and advancing psychodynamic and psychoanalytic principles and skills in the practice of modern psychiatry wherever clinical work takes place.
We are an affiliate organization of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and welcome interested colleagues to join us at our Annual Meetings and share our publications.
The aims of The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis are:
- To provide a forum for discussion of psychodynamic work in the consulting room as well as ideas and research in psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis;
- To encourage research and scholarship in psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis;
- To support education in psychodynamic principles and skills for trainees in psychiatry and psychoanalysis as well as for graduate psychiatrists and for other mental health clinicians;
- To support inquiry into the phenomena of individual motivation and social behavior, basic building blocks of psychodynamic thinking;
- To foster communication among psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and colleagues in the sciences and the humanities.
What is Psychodynamic Psychiatry?
Membership
The Academy welcomes physician psychoanalysts, licensed psychiatrists, residents and medical students who are interested in psychodynamic psychiatry.
Interested in joining the Academy? View the Membership section for details and to obtain an application.
AAPDPP 67th Annual Meeting – May 2-4, 2024
Click HERE for the Preliminary Program
Click HERE to Register for the Annual Meeting
Series IV of the Academy’s Educational Lecture Series
“Biopsychosocial Aspects of Psychodynamic Psychiatry”
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Chair
Gerald P. Perman, MD, AAPDPP Past President
Upcoming Presentations
February 15. 2024
Carolyn Doyle MD – Mental Health Outcomes Associated with Gender-Affirming Care
March 21, 2024
Ahron Friedberg, MD – Finding Happiness During Times of Trouble
Message from the President
Joseph R. Silvio, MD
AAPDPP President 2022-2024