APsA Fellowship – American Psychoanalytic Association

APsA Fellowship

The Fellowship Program is designed as an early-career initiative for future leaders and educators in the fields of academia, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and multidisciplinary endeavors. It provides an opportunity to gain knowledge about psychoanalysis and become involved in your local and national psychoanalytic community.

All qualified applicants can request a psychoanalyst mentor with whom to meet monthly, a free email subscription to the APsA newsletter (TAP), and complimentary registration at APsA’s National and (if occurring) Annual Meetings.

Submissions for the Fellowship Program are currently open. The Deadline is Friday, February 16th 2024.

Questions? Please contact Steve Shaw.

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.

PSYCHOANALYTIC CANDIDATES are not eligible for the fellowship because of their ready access to mentors and scientific activities at local and national levels.

Benefits

All applicants will receive complimentary registration to APsA’s 113th Annual Meeting (On-line) and the 2025 National Meeting (In-person). This benefit is only available to first-time applicants.

Fellowship winners will have all expenses paid to attend APsA’s 2025 National Meeting (Date and location to be announced). Fellows will attend scientific sessions and be invited to present clinical, research, and other material at a variety of seminars and workshops. Fellow 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.

Application

Please find the Application here.

Dropbox Upload Links

Letters of Recommendation – Please save each Letter under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_LetterofRecommendation(1,2, or 3)

https://www.dropbox.com/request/TUuxS8RExfg69uFUEXLU

Personal Statement – Please save the single file under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_PersonalStatement

https://www.dropbox.com/request/7YS4W8ddkAllMvdCYph2

CV – Please save the single file under the following convention: LastName_FirstName_CV

https://www.dropbox.com/request/c5yjLJftEieBwWJ0MKek

Deadline

The deadline for Fellowship applications is Friday, February 16, 2024