What’s New at the 2027 National Meeting
For the 2027 National Meeting in Washington, D.C., we’re excited to share new features, along with an updated format and schedule. We also have several new sessions and social events that we hope will bring the community together more often throughout the week. Keep reading to see what’s new for APsA’s 2027 National Meeting.
Shorter Week with Bookended Plenaries
The National Meeting now runs for four packed days. We’ll start on Tuesday, February 2 and finish on Friday, February 5 at the Mayflower Hotel.
Tuesday morning opens with Nancy McWilliams’s “Saving Psychoanalysis” plenary, and we’ll have a brand-new social gathering of complimentary coffee and a light breakfast waiting so you can settle in before it starts. The week now wraps with a new Friday-night closing plenary, Dionne Powell’s “Ghosts in the Institutions: Psychoanalytic Education in a Raced World.” Our second annual Dinner Dance follows it, so we can come together again to celebrate a wonderful week.
Room to Think in the Middle
We know that the days can be long with many sessions, discussion groups, and clinical workshops to attend. We’ve expanded the afternoon break to give the lunch hour a full, dedicated 60 minutes. So, you can decompress, hydrate, and fuel yourself for the rest of the day. We hope you’ll take this time to eat a great meal, find the colleague you’ve been meaning to talk to, or take a walk, without skipping the session that follows.
Finding Your Community
In 2027, we are focusing on giving our community more opportunities to come together as a group. So, this year we have one dedicated social event each day. We already mentioned the Tuesday morning complimentary breakfast ahead of the Opening Plenary and the returning Dinner Dance on Friday. On Wednesday evening, you are invited to join the Community Psychoanalysis & The Arts Washington Monument and Museum Tour for a private nighttime tour of the nation’s monuments, illuminated after dark! At this social education event, you’ll travel around the Capitol in a comfortable luxury coach with a professional guide, accompanied by art, historical, architectural, and psychoanalytic commentary and dialogue. This is a great way to see our host city with your colleagues. On Thursday evening, the Membership Department will present Grieving Together to provide space and time for the shared acknowledgment of multiple losses experienced within the APsA community on many levels.
If you are interested in learning how the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) comes together, we hope you’ll attend a new session to meet the JAPA editors on Wednesday morning. The editors will discuss how issues are planned, how original papers and book reviews are selected, and how they work with authors to develop lively, relevant contributions to the analytic literature.
Registration Categories are Simplified
We’ve streamlined registration to a handful of categories for members and guests, so you’ll spend less time figuring out which one is yours—and more time booking your spot, reviewing the sessions and preparing for a great time in D.C.
We are also happy to share that we now have three registration rate periods, starting with a new early bird rate, which is the lowest of the three. Register early, and you’ll pay less. Speaking of paying less, we reduced the Dinner Dance ticket price. After an enthusiastic response last year, we wanted to make this social activity more accessible to our registrants. We are also pleased that our group block rates for the Mayflower Hotel are among the lowest room rates we’ve offered in the last few years.
Registration Opens Soon
We hope you’re as excited as we are for this new format for our National Meeting. If you are not an APsA member and don’t yet have an APsA account, create one today to be notified when registration opens!