Recommendations for Preventing Gun Violence

APsaA recommends these five concrete steps designed to reduce the likelihood of mass murder and suicides like we saw in Connecticut. They are preliminary and were developed by experts in the field who are members of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Those experts include Douglas Jacobs, M.D. President and Medical Director, Screening for Mental Health Inc., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Jonathan Monahan, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Director MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study; and Robert L. Pyles, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, President American Psychoanalytic Association. Continue reading...

Advocacy

APsaA makes sure that the voices of its members are heard both on Capitol Hill as well as at various state levels. This section features letters sent to legislators as well as to federal and state administrators conveying the points of view of the Association.3

Medical Privacy

APsaA is hard at work advocating for the protection of patients' right to privacy.

Mental Health Parity

APsaA works closely with its partner associations to ensure ongoing compliance within Medicare and private insurers regarding the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

Mental Health Governance

APsaA advocates for favorable rulemaking and criteria across all federal agencies to properly classify and evaluate mental health disorders.

Health Care Reform

Numerous bills are pending in Congress, with complex provisions that could lead to dramatic changes in the economics of health care and other aspects of health care policy.

Landmark Cases

These landmark cases are pivotal to issues of particular concern to APsaA members such as medical privacy which impacts their clinical practices as well as issues of broad social concern such as gay rights and same-sex marriage. Often, landmark cases are the outcome of a legal case that establishes a precedent that either substantially changes the interpretation of the law or that simply establishes new case law on a particular issue.

Federal Budget

Visit this section to be kept apprised on policy and debate on budget issues that may affect psychoanalysis.

Reports from Washington, D.C.

APsaA's federal legislative counsel provides timely and informative summaries on public policy matters that affect the psychoanalytic profession and the greater mental health community. Read the latest reports here.