• To support basic and applied research involving psychoanalytic perspectives and observations;



• To support young scholars interested in psychoanalytic research;



• To provide psychoanalytic scholars an opportunity to consult with experienced investigators around an idea, methodological issue, or existing dataset;



• To provide opportunities for beginning psychoanalytic investigators to meet individually and as a group with experienced investigators.

Scope of Research

The Fund conceives of psychoanalytic research along the broadest lines, including: scholarly and empirical investigative contributions that can advance knowledge of psychoanalytic theory, practice, and links between psychoanalysis and neighboring disciplines such as developmental psychology or neuroscience.

The scope of this research includes (but is not limited to):

• systematic research into psychoanalytic treatment processes and outcomes (including the development of reliable and valid measures of appropriate variables related to process and outcome);



• developmental studies including both experimental and naturalistic investigations of infant and child development or of adult development;



• psychophysiological and other experimental studies, other relevant social science studies, intellectual history, philosophical studies, and scholarly applications of psychoanalysis in fields such as history and literature.

The FPR also invites applications from multiple methodological points of view.