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APsaA Affirms That Black Trans Lives Matter

July 21, 2020

Racism Needs to Be Heard and Addressed

June 2, 2020

APsaA Decries the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

May 11, 2020

Resources for the Public for Coping with COVID

March 25, 2020

APsaA Calls for An End to Sharing Confidential Therapy Sessions of Migrant Youth

February 19, 2020

APsaA Announces 2020 Winner of Excellence in Journalism Award

February 11, 2020

APsaA Speaks Out Against Harmful Laws Targeting Transgender Youth

February 4, 2020

APsaA Demands U.S. End Psychological Warfare Against Migrant Children and Families

August 22, 2019

U.S. Psychoanalysts Apologize for Labeling Homosexuality An Illness, Reuters

June 21, 2019

APsaA Issues Long Overdue Apology to LGBTQ Community

June 21, 2019

APsaA Commends Passage of Equality Act, Calls on Senate to Support It

May 21, 2019

APsaA Works With Congress on Bipartisan Legislation to Reduce Violence

March 28, 2019

Statement on Gun Violence and Suicide Risk

March 26, 2019

APsaA Applauds Decision in UnitedHealth Group Lawsuit

March 8, 2019

U.S. Government Has Traumatized Migrant Children and Families

February 28, 2019

Examining Mind, Care, and Kinship: Q&A with the 2026 Plenary Speakers

November 24, 2025

2025 Research Training Program Participants Share Their Experience

November 21, 2025

APsA Opens Registration for 2026 National Meeting

November 14, 2025

APsA Response to Harper’s Magazine Article

July 2, 2025

American Board of Psychoanalysis (ABPsa) Releases Results of Groundbreaking Research Study: What constitutes competent psychoanalytic work?

March 13, 2024

Psychoanalysis Now

November 13, 2023

Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development

September 22, 2023

Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis (COWAP) North America Launches a Virtual Art Gallery: Images Protest the Repealing of Roe v. Wade & Encourage the Fight for Reproductive Rights

June 23, 2023

Member Spotlight: Dr. Richard Lane named the 2023 Fulbright-Freud Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: Christopher W. T. Miller, MD in The Washington Post on how psychotherapy can change your brain

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: David Goldberg, Psy.D., on the “so-called fear of rejection” for Psychology Today

April 5, 2023

Psychic Frictions: On Donald Moss’s “Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year” and Sharon Kivland’s “Abécédaire”

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: Dr. Bonnie Buchele in The New York Times on “Unpacking the Psychology of Gift-Giving”

April 5, 2023

The Sigourney Awards 2022 Recipients Announced: Guiseppe Civitarese, Jack Drescher, Dorothy Holmes, Alessandra Lemma, and Edward Tronick

April 5, 2023

Not Your Daddy’s Freud: A new generation of analysts and patients is embracing the father of psychoanalysis

April 5, 2023

Three Ways to Change Attitudes About Race

January 29, 2021

U.S. Psychoanalysts Apologize for Labeling Homosexuality An Illness, Reuters

June 21, 2019

We Need to Hear The Sobs Of Children At The Border, Elle.com

June 20, 2018

What WWII Taught Us About Family Separation Trauma,Washington Post

June 19, 2018

Physician Obtains Grant For Suicide Study, Berkshire Eagle

June 14, 2018

Trump’s Policy Separating Kids At The Border Can Cause Life Long Trauma, Mic.com

June 7, 2018

Separating Children Worse Than War – Letter-to-the-Editor, Los Angeles Times

June 6, 2018

10 Things We Keep Getting Wrong About Gun Violence, Huffington Post

March 17, 2018

Psychoanalysts Encourage Political Engagement Under Trump, Yahoo! News

February 21, 2018

Still Talking After All these Years, New York Times

February 18, 2018

Psychoanalytic Association Clarifies Position on Goldwater Rule, Psychiatric News

August 11, 2017

Psychologists Explain Why People Keep Having Trump Nightmares, Vice

July 31, 2017

A Rift Among Experts Over Analyzing Trump’s Mental Health, CNN

July 26, 2017

Clarifying the ‘Goldwater Rule’ for Psychotherapists in the Age of Trump, Yahoo!

July 25, 2017

How to Beat the Sunday Night Blues, The Ladders

June 2, 2017

Psychoanalysts Fight To Make Their Profession Relevant, STAT

March 15, 2017

Freud Was Right, Science 2.0.

January 4, 2017

A Freudian theory, now backed up by neuroscience, explains why so many fear clowns, Quartz,

October 8, 2016

Panel examines gender and psychoanalysis, Windy City Times

June 20, 2016

Freudian Notions of Fantasy are Apparent in How We Use the Internet, Quartz

May 7, 2016

American Psychoanalytic Association Calls Mississipp’s Anti-LGBT Law ‘Discriminatory and Harmful’, Edge Media Network,

April 11, 2016

How Race, Class Set the Stage for Flint Water Crisis, Detroit Free Press

March 24, 2016

A Silent Disaster, New Frontier

February 28, 2016

Flint’s Children and the Burden of Betrayal, Washington Post

February 18, 2016

7 Things Sigmund Freud ‘Nailed’ About Sex and Love, PsychCentral.com

February 14, 2016

Psych groups offer historic perspective on war trauma, Military Times

December 25, 2015

Naomi Janowitz Wins Teaching Award, Dateline

December 7, 2015

Observing the Anniversary of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, ShrinkRapRadio

November 19, 2015

All Your Scary Dreams Really Mean the Same Thing, Huffington Post

November 4, 2015

The shrinking couch: Manhattan’s psychoanalysts on the rack?, BBC Radio

June 8, 2015

The 12 Things Sigmund Freud Got Right, Huffington Post

May 7, 2015

In West Baltimore, some residents see rioting as a rational response to desapir, Vox

April 29, 2015

Is Your Child Not Making Friends, Care.com,

March 31, 2015

Ilinois Conversion Therapy Ban Ethics vs. Privacy, Public News Service

March 24, 2015

Anti-conversion Therapy Bill Passes Out of Committee, Windy City Times

March 18, 2015

What Was Robert Durst Thinking? Why some people can’t resist the chance to incriminate themselves on camera, Washington Post

March 17, 2015

How to live life to the fullest, RewireMe.com

March 5, 2015

Reparative Therapy Is Not Therapy, Huffington Post

February 24, 2015

Nationwide Campaign Urges Docs to Ask if Patients are Veterans, Military.com

February 16, 2015

Experts: Docs Should Ask About Patients’ Military History, Military Times

February 16, 2015

Illinois LGBT Advocates Demand Conversion Therapy Ban, Chicago Phoenix

January 20, 2015

UT Professor Honored by American Psychoanalytic Association, UT Texas

January 17, 2015

The Stuff That Dreams (and Nightmares) are Made Of, The Leonard Lopate Show

April 11, 2014

APsA Announces Winner of the 2025 Scientific Paper Prize

November 25, 2025

2025 Fred Pine Paper Award Winner Announced

November 24, 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 Advanced Practice in Nursing Tuition Support Award Recipients

November 19, 2025

APsA Announces Fellowship Portal Opening for 2026 – 2027 Class

November 17, 2025

APsA Names Dr. Christopher Walling 2026 Ticho Memorial Award Recipient

November 17, 2025

APsA Condemns and Mourns the Loss of Innocent Lives in Armed Conflicts

February 29, 2024

APsA Condemns Murder of Palestinian American Boy and Violence Against Anyone Based on Group Identity

October 18, 2023

APsA Condemns Hamas Terrorism

October 13, 2023

APsA Announces the Publication of the Final Report of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis

June 22, 2023

APsA Opposes Legislation that Interferes in or Penalizes Patient Care

May 4, 2023

APsaA Statement on Roe v. Wade Reversal

July 7, 2022

APsaA Denounces Court Decision on Conversion Therapy

November 25, 2020

APsaA Says Othering is a Public Health Crisis

August 31, 2020

APsaA Affirms That Black Trans Lives Matter

July 21, 2020

Racism Needs to Be Heard and Addressed

June 2, 2020

APsaA Decries the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

May 11, 2020

Resources for the Public for Coping with COVID

March 25, 2020

APsaA Calls for An End to Sharing Confidential Therapy Sessions of Migrant Youth

February 19, 2020

APsaA Announces 2020 Winner of Excellence in Journalism Award

February 11, 2020

APsaA Speaks Out Against Harmful Laws Targeting Transgender Youth

February 4, 2020

APsaA Demands U.S. End Psychological Warfare Against Migrant Children and Families

August 22, 2019

APsaA Issues Long Overdue Apology to LGBTQ Community

June 21, 2019

APsaA Commends Passage of Equality Act, Calls on Senate to Support It

May 21, 2019

APsaA Works With Congress on Bipartisan Legislation to Reduce Violence

March 28, 2019

Statement on Gun Violence and Suicide Risk

March 26, 2019

APsaA Applauds Decision in UnitedHealth Group Lawsuit

March 8, 2019

U.S. Government Has Traumatized Migrant Children and Families

February 28, 2019

“NPR’s ‘Hidden Brain’ Wins American Psychoanalytic Association’s 2019 Journalism Award”

February 7, 2019

“APsaA Hires News Executive Director”

January 8, 2019

“APsaA Appoints New Editor of JAPA”

January 7, 2019

“APsaA Addresses Recent Hate Crimes and Divisive Rhetoric”

October 31, 2018

“APsaA Weighs In On Transgender Rights”

October 24, 2018

“American Psychoanalytic Association Appoints New Editor of JAPA”

September 12, 2018

“American Psychoanalytic Association Issues Statement on Policy Separating Migrant Children from Parents”

May 31, 2018

“Tampa Bay Times Wins Journalism Award from American Psychoanalytic Association”

February 12, 2018

“Separating Immigrant Families Is Harmful and Cruel Say Leading Mental Health and Social Justice Groups”

December 28, 2017

“APsaA Urges President to Remember Promises to LGBTQ Community”

November 3, 2017

“APsaA Calls for Laws Controlling the Availablity of Firearms”

October 2, 2017

“APsaA Opposes Latest Attempt to Repeal Affordable Care Act”

September 26, 2017

“APsaA Calls for Leaders to Protect Promise to Dreamers”

September 19, 2017

“Hurricane Harvey Will Have Lasting Mental Health Impact”

August 31, 2017

“APsaA Calls on Leaders To Speak Out About Hate Groups”

August 17, 2017

“APsaA Statement on “Goldwater Rule”

July 25, 2017

“Race, Immigration Focus of Psychoanalytic Conference”

June 1, 2017

APsaA Joins Two Dozen Medical Groups In Support of the “March for Science”

April 7, 2017

“APsaA Awards Mother Jones with Journalism Award for Examining Mass Shootings”

January 12, 2017

“National Psychoanalytic Association Bestows Annual CORST Essay Prize”

January 11, 2017

“Science is Proving Freud Right”

January 11, 2017

“Leading Psychoanalytic Association Funds Four New Research Projects”

November 22, 2016

Psychoanalytic Understanding of War Trauma – Webinars

October 17, 2016

“Understanding War Trauma: A Six-Part Webinar Series from the American Psychoanalytic Association”

October 17, 2016

“APsaA Mourns Victims of Orlando Terrorist Attack, Calls for Action”

June 13, 2016

“Leading Psychoanalytic Association Funds Six Research Projects”

May 24, 2016

“Leading Mental Health Organizations Urge an End to Harmful ‘Religious Laws'”

April 19, 2016

“APsaA Calls Mississippi’s Religious Freedom Law ‘Discriminatory and Harmful'”

April 11, 2016

News: APsaA Calls on Governor Snyder to Apologize, Lead By Example

March 7, 2016

“NPAP Scholar of Literature and Psychoanalysis Wins Award for Essay on Hamlet”

January 15, 2016

“APsaA Journalism Prize Awarded to Article Addressing Addiction Treatments (or lack of)

January 15, 2016

News: APsaA Calls for Empathy Regarding Plight of Refugees

December 8, 2015

News: Understanding the Mind: Celebrating Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams

November 4, 2015

News: Bullies, Victims and Bystanders: Understanding this Relationship is Key to Prevention

September 30, 2015

News: Psychoanalytic Perspective on Suicide Prevention

September 8, 2015

Illinois Bans Conversion Therapy for LGBT Youth

August 21, 2015

News: APsaA Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex and Same-Gender Marriage

June 26, 2015

APsaA Garners Update to CPT Evaluation & Management Guidelines: Healthcare Professionals Now Advised to Ask About Military Service

February 12, 2015

Psychoanalysis & You: Episode 1

October 20, 2023

Psychoanalysis & You: Podcast Page

October 19, 2023

APsA Condemns Murder of Palestinian American Boy and Violence Against Anyone Based on Group Identity

October 18, 2023

APsA Condemns Hamas Terrorism

October 13, 2023

Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development

September 22, 2023

Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis (COWAP) North America Launches a Virtual Art Gallery: Images Protest the Repealing of Roe v. Wade & Encourage the Fight for Reproductive Rights

June 23, 2023

APsA Announces the Publication of the Final Report of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis

June 22, 2023

APsA Opposes Legislation that Interferes in or Penalizes Patient Care

May 4, 2023

Member Spotlight: Dr. Richard Lane named the 2023 Fulbright-Freud Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: Christopher W. T. Miller, MD in The Washington Post on how psychotherapy can change your brain

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: David Goldberg, Psy.D., on the “so-called fear of rejection” for Psychology Today

April 5, 2023

Psychic Frictions: On Donald Moss’s “Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year” and Sharon Kivland’s “Abécédaire”

April 5, 2023

Member Spotlight: Dr. Bonnie Buchele in The New York Times on “Unpacking the Psychology of Gift-Giving”

April 5, 2023

The Sigourney Awards 2022 Recipients Announced: Guiseppe Civitarese, Jack Drescher, Dorothy Holmes, Alessandra Lemma, and Edward Tronick

April 5, 2023

The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)

April 5, 2023

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The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)

April 5, 2023

JAPA is a peer-reviewed journal publishing original articles and commentaries, ground-breaking research, thoughtful plenary addresses, in-depth panel reports, and more.

The American Psychoanalyst (TAP)

April 4, 2023

APsA’s triannual magazine, TAP, offers a psychoanalytic perspective on current events in psychology, the arts, and culture for mental health professionals, students, and the general public.

Psychotherapist Newsletter

April 1, 2023

The Psychotherapist Newsletter features scientific programs and publications about psychoanalytic psychotherapy, personal reflections, social and community issues, and advocacy.

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