American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

PSYCHOANALYTIC DISPATCHES

NOVEMBER 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of Psychoanalytic Dispatches! This issue highlights key opportunities and events across our community.

Keep reading to learn about the Research Training Program for individuals interested in conducting psychoanalytically oriented treatment research. This program requires a proposal application to participate and occurs on the Monday and Tuesday before the National Meeting in January 2026.

Other highlights include the Candidates Council Seminar (Nov 8) with Instructor: Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. leading a presentation on how music and psychoanalytic concepts inform and enrich each other and "speak" to all of us about growing up. You'll also find preview information for APsA’s 2026 National Meeting with information on registration.

Check out our newest publications and podcasts and explore awards, fellowships and other opportunities including travel scholarships for in-training members for the 2026 National Meeting. We’re grateful for your continued engagement with us. Thank you for being an essential part of APsA!

Looking for a book or link? All notices in this message are found at apsa.org/dispatches.

2026 National Meeting

APsA’s 2026 National Meeting website is now LIVE!* We have an exceptional program for 2026 featuring outstanding sessions, along with new opportunities to advance research, networking, and professional development in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. If this is your first time attending an APsA meeting, we will have a special reception just for you, along with helpful tips for navigating the meeting!

Our event website contains all the essential information to help you make the most of the upcoming meeting, including:

Registration Info - registration opens Tuesday, November 11 at 12PM EST.
Travel and hotel information
Schedules and Programs
Continuing Education
Special tracks for Candidates, Psychotherapists and more

*Please access the site from a computer, as it may not display properly on mobile devices.

Visit the 2026 National Meeting site

Awards, Fellowships, & Opportunities

Don't let upcoming deadlines pass you by! Submit your application(s) today or take a look at upcoming winter awards so that you can plan ahead.

Participate in the Research Training Program at the 2026 National Meeting. Individuals interested in conducting psychoanalytically oriented treatment research are invited to apply for this exciting program. Deadline to submit is December 1, 2025.
The portal is open for individuals interested in the travel scholarship for the 2026 National Meeting for in-training members.
The Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award and Lecture is accepting applications until April 1, 2026.
Save the Date! The Annual IJP Online Conference is on 10 January 2026. On Extreme Violence, with papers by John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban. You can find the event details here.

Find more opportunities and details at apsa.org/awards.

Podcasts & Publications

PSYCHOANALYSIS & YOU | Official APsA Podcast

Watch Episode 18 where our host Gail Saltz discusses the challenges of psychoanalysis with children and youth with guest Dr. Alexander D. Kalogerakis.

Catch up with past episodes on your favorite listening platform or watch on YouTube. Subscribe to "Psychoanalysis & You" today!

To be featured as a guest in the #APsApodcast, email communications@apsa.org.

JAPA

New issue 73.4 of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) has been published. Submit your article to be reviewed and included in future issues.

TAP Magazine

Issue 59.2 of The American Psychoanalyst (TAP) is out now, covering the social turn in psychoanalysis, therapy as method acting, ketamine therapy, and more.

For this issue, which delves into “the social” and samples psychoanalytic fashion, the TAP team took to the surreal streets of NYC for their first photographic cover shoot.

Five hours and hundreds of shots later, they captured the lupine charisma of models Melissa Overton (TAP Design Director) and Tati Nguyen (TAP contributor) across four distinct magazine covers. As always, members of APsA will get a free issue in the mail. Which one will you get?

Read Issue 59.2 here!

The CAI Report

APsA members are staying ahead of the curve as artificial intelligence technology quickly evolves and impacts psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Special Issue 7: Humans, Minds, and Brains: A Trialogue at the Edge of AI Possibility was released last month and is available to read online today.

Upcoming Events

Nov 7 | Alumni Group Roundtable Discussion – Child Analysis

Nov 8 | Candidates’ Council Seminar: The Power of Music in “Peter and the Wolf”

Nov 14 | Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film “The Thing”

Nov 14 | The Pseudo-Self

Nov 14 | Film & Mind: Nickel Boys

Nov 15 | The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma, Attachment, and Neuroscience

Nov 15 | Stephen Seligman, MD: “Holding and Containing: The Metaphor of the Baby in Winnicott, Bion, and Klein"

Nov 15 | Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”

Nov 20 | Journey: Race Riot 1919-Racial Enactment 2006-Racial Reparations Beginning 2023

Nov 20 | When the risk of targeted violence enters the psychotherapeutic relationship

Nov 21 | Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens

Nov 22 | Cultural Competence Conference: Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Dec 2 | Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens

Dec 5 | Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy

The Psychotherapist Newsletter

Don't miss the recent articles in the Psychotherapist Newsletter!

Keep spreading the good news about the option to become a Clinical Member at APsA to a psychotherapist that you know.

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