Any person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of psychoanalysis shall be eligible for election as an Honorary APsaA Member.

Sponsor

Committee on Honorary Members (President and Directors-at-Large) of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Procedure

1. The name of a potential honorary member is proposed by a voting member of the Association.
   Nominations often come to the national office which then forwards them to the chair of the Committee
   on Honorary Membership (currently Jeffrey Seitelman).
2. A negative vote by more than one member of the committee shall be cause for rejection of the
   proposed name.
3. Should the committee favor the proposal, it shall so report to the Board of Directors, which shall
   decide whether to submit the name to the membership.
4. Should the committee not favor the proposal, the proposer is to be notified, and the matter held
   confidential.
5. In the event that the proposer is dissatisfied with the decision of the committee, s/he may submit
   the proposed name directly to the Board of Directors at the next meeting of that body, at which time
   the committee would make known to the Board of Directors the reasons for its rejection of the
   proposal.
6. An affirmative vote by at least three-fourths of the councilors present and eligible to vote shall
   be necessary in order to refer the proposed name to the membership as a whole.
7. Election to honorary membership at the Meeting of Members shall be by affirmative vote of a majority
   of the members present and eligible to vote.

View the list of honorary APsaA members.

Contact

Jeffrey Seitelman, M.D., Chair