The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP)

The American Academy of Psychoanalysis was founded in 1956 (For a list of the 76 Charter members of the Academy

Founded in 1956, the Academy has been open to physicians with legitimate training in psychoanalysis, and membership was opened to those psychiatrists who have demonstrated an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic psychiatrists were offered membership, and this expansion of the membership was signaled by the name change to the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) in 2001.

The Academy became an affiliate organization of the American Psychiatric Association, indicating the organization’s status as representing the importance of psychodynamic psychotherapy within the practice of psychiatry. Membership has been opened to psychiatric residents and medical students as well.

Mission:
The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 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.

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.