Seventy years after G. Stanley Hall, the founder of the American Psychological Association invited Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Carl Jung and Ernest Jones to the Clark University, the Division of Psychoanalysis was established as a structure within the American Psychology Association. In the seventeen subsequent years, the Division of Psychoanalysis has grown to almost 4,000 members and affiliates (students and international affiliates). The Division represents within the broad field of psychology, professionals who identify themselves as having a major commitment to the study, practice and development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

FROM THE PRESIDENT RENEWAL AND TRANSITION Mary Beth Cresci, Ph.D. The tenor of the Division 39 Spring Meeting in Chicago in April was one of promise and renewal.  Our co-chairs, Scott Pytluk and Andy Suth, did a marvelous job of organizing the meeting and reaching out to graduate students and early career professionals.  With almost 800 attendees including over 175 graduate students, along with many ECP’s and analytic candidates, this spring meeting was the largest meeting to be held outside of New York.  For those of us with considerable gray in our hair, the large turnout by people new to our field gave us hope that psychoanalysis is being embraced by the next generation of professionals.	More >>
SPOTLIGHT   Louis Rothschild, Ph.D. Welcome to the Spotlight Introduction for Volume 27, Issue Number 2 of Psychoanalytic Psychology.  In choosing to Spotlight Marco Chiesa’s article Research and Psychoanalysis: Still time to bridge the great divide?  I am reminded of Paul Meehl’s contrasting of dust-bowl empiricism and clinical judgment (see Meehl, 1973).  It was over fifty years ago that Meehl, a member of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis critiqued “Statisticians (and rat men) with castrative intent”, and suggested that neither those who favor factor analysis nor those who favor psychoanalysis need take up  biased positions toward each other (Meehl, 1973, p. 64).  Meehl was an expert in defending the hypothesizing position of the clinician while simultaneously critiquing that very clinical uncertainty on the grounds of a liability found in a failure to distinguish.  This ability to engage multiple perspectives could well be considered a cornerstone of the psychoanalytic attitude that purports an affirmation of critical thought potentially leading to an appreciation of what we often call “the other”.  In regard to the capacity to move beyond a position of paranoid/schizoid fantasies and enactments of castration in the meeting of psychoanalytic practice and research, Chiesa’s lead article in the current issue of the journal accomplishes a rapprochement toward what a Kleinian might call a depressive position.	More >>
InSight: eNews First editions of the new Division 39 publication inSight: Division 39 eNews link to InSight News Online Archive	More >>
APA Press Release: “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Brings Lasting Benefits through Self-Knowledge Patients Continue to Improve After Treatment Ends, New Study Finds     WASHINGTON—Psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for a wide range of mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic and stress-related physical ailments, and the benefits of the therapy grow after treatment has ended, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-shedler.pdf	More >>
FROM THE PRESIDENT What is tte Division Up to Now? Members of Division 39 may assume that the Spring Meeting and our program at the APA Convention in the late summer are the most active times for the Division. However, during the fall and winter the officers and Board members of the Division are also quite busy. In November we hold an all-day Executive Committee (EC) Meeting (with the presidents, treasurer, secretary, and council representatives), and in January we hold a briefer EC Meeting and an all-day Board of Directors Meeting. The Fall EC Meeting is a time when we review the year and anticipate new initiatives for the upcoming year. At the January Board Meeting we approve the annual budget and establish many of the agenda items that will carry us forward. I think you will be interested to learn about some of the issues we explored at these meetings and the directions we have embarked on to strengthen the Division and provide support for our members. As you will see, the Board depends heavily on many committees and task forces that work actively on our behalf throughout the year.	More >>
Early Career Professionals Attention Early Career Professionals and Graduate Students: The 2010 Division 39 Spring Meeting will be held in Chicago with the theme, “Wild Analysis: Then (1920) and Now (2010).” Exciting new opportunities for early career participants are available.	More >>
PEP WEB ARCHIVE SUBSCRIPTION NOW AVAILABLE TO DIVISION 39 MEMBERS! You have probably received an email explaining how and why the Division has created a special arrangement for its members to gain cheap access to the PEP Archive at http://www.pep-web.org READ ON FOR INSTRUCTIONS	More >>
PEP WEB ReSubscription Reminder Members who have subscribed to the PEP WEB need to resubscribe at the end of their subscription year. Here's how to renew your subscription:	More >>
APsaA Fellowship Program The American Psychoanalytic Association founded its Fellowship Program as part of an initiative to provide outstanding early-career psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and academics, the future educators and leaders in their fields, additional knowledge of psychoanalysis. Click here for a link to the APsaA site	More >>
Empirical Studies in Psychoanalysis A Link to the APSA Web Site Empirical Studies in Psychoanalysis	More >>
Division 39/APA Press Book Prize Division 39 and APA Press are delighted to announce the second annual prize for a first book by a psychoanalytic author. The winner receives a $1000 cash prize, a certificate of recogntion, and guarantee of publication by the APA press.	More >>
PsycScans Now Online PsycSCAN: Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Abstracts is now available electronically (and only electronically) through PsychSCANS--APA's electronic database resource. To access PsycScans/Psychoanalysis,log into the APA.org web site and follow the links under Your Subscriptions on the home page. For more detailed instructions, turn to the Publications Committee area of this web site, where you will find a pdf document.	More >>
Division 39/APsaA Collaboration "The Enduring Significance of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice," a powerpoint presentation created by Greg Lowder, in collaboration with Nancy McWilliams, James Hansell, and the Board of Directors of Division 39. Division 39 offers a teaching resource that covers empirical research substantiating psychoanalytic theories and treatments. Download a PDF Version of the Power Point Presentation Click here to connect to APsaA Web Site APsaA Fellowship Web Site	More >>
Outreach Project Highlight: SOFAR Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists DIVISION 39 SOFAR Project Highlighted in APA Monitor	More >>
Task Force on Basic Human Rights The Task Force on Basic Human Rights was appointed just prior to the 2006 Spring Conference by David Ramirez, President of the Division. It has the following members: Neil Altman, chair; Marilyn Jacobs, Frank Summers, Laurel Bass Wagner, Nancy McWilliams (ex-officio), and Jaine Darwin. Important Documents Related to the Task Force	More >>
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Reviewed in The New York Times See the Link in the New Events Box on this Home Page A number of Division 39 members - Sidney Blatt, Jaine Darwin, Abby Herzig, Marvin Hurvich, Bertram Karon, Nancy McWilliams, Herbert Schlesinger, Jonathan Shedler, Howard Shevrin, George Stricker, Joel Weinberger, Drew Westen and others - have contributed to the development of a new diagnostic manual intended to compensate for many of the limitations of the DSM. Edited by Stanley Greenspan and sponsored by Division 39, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, the National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, the manual will be available sometime this spring. Royalties will go into a fund to support psychoanalytic research. There follows an article on the project that appeared recently in the New York Times:	More >>
Newsletter Information Psychologist-Psychoanalyst The Psychologist-Psychoanalyst is an official publication of the Division of Psychoanalysis. It is published four times a year and contains general articles of interest to the membership as well as reports from officers, committees, sections and local chapters of the Division.	More >>