APsA Opens Registration for 2026 National Meeting

Program highlights include plenary addresses by Donnel Stern, Ph.D., and Ken Corbett, Ph.D.

New York, NY — November 14, 2025 — The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) today announced that registration is open for the 2026 National Meeting, taking place January 27 – February 1, 2026, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

The 2026 National Meeting brings together psychoanalysts, researchers, clinicians, and scholars for six days of scientific exchange, interdisciplinary dialogue, and community engagement. This year’s program features two major plenary events:

• Friday Plenary Address: What Does “Unconscious” Mean? Unformulated Experience and the Interpersonal Field — Donnel Stern, Ph.D.
  Stern is a leading figure in contemporary interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis. He is known for developing the concept of unformulated experience and for decades of scholarship examining meaning-making, therapeutic process, and the co-construction of experience in the analytic dyad. He is the author of multiple foundational texts and a long-standing editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
• Saturday Plenary Address: Who’s Your Daddy? The Primal Father, Kinship, and the Ethics of Care — Ken Corbett, Ph.D.
  Corbett is a prominent psychoanalytic theorist whose work spans gender studies, queer theory, and clinical psychoanalysis. He is widely known for his research on masculinity, care, and relational ethics, as well as for Boyhoods and A Murder Over a Girl, works that bridge clinical insight with cultural critique. His writing and teaching have shaped contemporary conversations on gender and subjectivity.

Beyond the plenary sessions, attendees will have access to 130+ clinical workshops, discussion groups, scientific papers, affinity sessions, poster presentations, and a full schedule of continuing education opportunities totaling 45.5 CE credits. The meeting program also includes social events such as the Friday night Dinner Dance on January 30. A two-day Research Training Program will occur immediately before the meeting on January 26–27, 2026.

Registration and additional details are available at apsameeting.org.