The DPE Psychotherapy Education Section offers support, programming and resources to
training directors and faculty of APsA affiliated psychoanalytic psychotherapy programs in the
education of their psychotherapy students. There are approximately 36 psychotherapy
programs across the country which range from 1-year fellowships to 3 year programs, with a
few combined with the first two years of psychoanalytic training. We bring together the many
voices and faces of our psychoanalytic psychotherapy programs across the country. We also
bring together training directors and faculty, both virtually and in person, to share ideas,
resources, and problems as they endeavor to create meaningful and effective psychoanalytic
psychotherapy programs for future generations of clinicians who will keep the psychoanalytic
tradition alive.

Ann Dart LCSW, Co Chair,
Anna Schwartz MD, Co-chair

To fulfill our mission and vision, the DPE Psychotherapy Education Section offers an annual
workshop on topics of common interest related to psychotherapy curriculum development,
teaching, supervising, and trouble-shooting various issues that arise in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy training programs. We maintain a website tab for psychoanalytic psychotherapy
which includes live hyper-links to the programs affiliated with APsA. We also offer a dedicated
list-serve for psychotherapy training directors and faculty to share information and seek support

from each other. Additionally, the DPE Psychotherapy Education Section offers via the APsA
website a database of actual bibliographies and syllabi voluntarily posted for faculty use by
various institutes and centers. We plan to expand this database with more such resources. At
the meetings we also co-host, with the APsA Psychotherapy Department, a networking event
for those involved or interested in psychotherapy programs.

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