APsA Fellowship
This Fellowship Program is an early-career initiative aimed at future leaders and educators in fields of academia, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social work, nurse practitioners, and multidisciplinary endeavors. It offers a unique opportunity to gain knowledge about psychoanalysis and engage with the local and national psychoanalytic communities.
Important:
Psychoanalytic Candidates are not eligible for the fellowship because of their ready access to mentors and scientific activities at local and national levels.
The Fellowship Application portal is closed and will open in November.
Requirements
Applicants may be nominated by their department chairs, program directors, or an APsA member. When not applicable, self-nominations are encouraged. Reapplication is permitted. Applicants must be training or working in the United States during the fellowship year.
Nominees must demonstrate leadership ability in their discipline with special aptitude in research, teaching, writing, or clinical endeavors, along with an interest in psychodynamics, psychoanalysis, or applied psychoanalysis. Applications must demonstrate how the nominee’s interest in the mind has developed and how that interest will be directed in the nominee’s field in the future.
Important:
Psychoanalytic Candidates are not eligible for the fellowship because of their ready access to mentors and scientific activities at local and national levels.
Benefits
Applicants
All applicants will receive complimentary registration to APsA’s 114th Virtual Annual Meeting (June 13-15, 2025) and the 2026 National Meeting (January 27 – February 1, 2026 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco). This benefit is only available to first-time applicants.
Fellowship Winners
Fellowship winners will have travel, hotel (double occupancy), and meals covered for APsA’s 2026 National Meeting taking place from January 27 – February 1, 2026 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Fellows will attend scientific sessions and be invited to present clinical, research, and other material at a variety of seminars and workshops. Fellows will be assigned an APsA mentor. The mentor relationship is a central component of the fellowship and Fellows have the option of requesting a second mentor to facilitate their professional development. They will also receive subscriptions to various psychoanalytic publications.
Criteria for Application
PSYCHIATRY APPLICANTS must, at the time of application, be full-time general or child psychiatry residents, PGY-2 or higher, or fellows or psychiatrists who have become board eligible within the previous three years. They will hold at least half-time academic appointments that include training, leadership, or research responsibilities during the fellowship year.
PSYCHOLOGY APPLICANTS must, at the time of the fellowship, hold at minimum a half-time position with an academic department or clinical training program, and have training, leadership, or research responsibilities. Psychology graduate programs must be accredited. Applicants, if predoctoral, must have completed coursework and be in or beyond the predoctoral internship. If postdoctoral, they must have received the doctoral degree or completed a postdoctoral fellowship within the past five years.
SOCIAL WORK APPLICANTS must, at the time of the fellowship, have received an M.S.W. or doctoral degree in the last five years. Applicants enrolled in a D.S.W. or Ph.D. program must have received their M.S.W. in the last ten years. These applicants must also have begun their advanced degrees within five years of the M.S.W. Applicants must demonstrate a pursuit of applied psychoanalysis in one or more of the following areas: at least a part-time appointment with an academic department; a position in training, leadership, public policy, or research; or an interdisciplinary position (at least part-time) offering an opportunity to teach through didactics or consultation.
ACADEMIC AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPLICANTS must be individuals from academia or non-mental health professions, such as the humanities, social sciences, neuroscience, medicine, law, theology, journalism, or the arts. They should demonstrate a serious ongoing interest in psychoanalysis and its relationship to their primary field. They should be curious about how psychoanalytic theory is used clinically. Applicants must currently work in a position that influences others through education, writing, public speaking, research, organizational leadership, performance, or artistic installations. They should be no more than eight years postdoctoral (or its equivalent) or, if predoctoral, be nearing completion of degree.
Important:
Psychoanalytic Candidates are not eligible for the fellowship because of their ready access to mentors and scientific activities at local and national levels.
Application
The Fellowship portal is now closed.
The portal will open for the 2026-2027 program in November 2025
Dropbox Upload Links
Letters of Recommendation – Please save each Letter under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_LetterofRecommendation(1,2, or 3)
Personal Statement – Please save the single file under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_PersonalStatement
CV – Please save the single file under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_CV
Deadline
The Fellowship portal is now closed.
The portal will open for the 2026-2027 program in November 2025.
