Poster Session

Poster presenters will have the opportunity to discuss their research with interested attendees during the Poster Session taking place during APsA’s 2025 National Meeting at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

The Poster Session takes place on Friday, February 7, 2025 from 11:15 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Poster Session Chair: Konstanitinos Taliouridis, Ph.D., Psy. D., MBA

[email protected]

Purpose and Focus

  • Poster topic focus may be as follows:
    • Conceptual and/or empirical relevance to psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory, technique, aspects of practice, and effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
  • Contributions from multiple disciplines are welcome, including research questions in ‘neighboring fields’—such as clinical, developmental and social psychology, family psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, historical studies, history of ideas, and art history
  • Methodologies appropriate to the discipline, data, and questions (e.g. small-sample, single-subject, descriptive, and clinical research designs) are acceptable
  • This Poster Session is a forum to present and share with meeting attendees:
    • New, unpublished data
    • New analyses of these data
    • Newly designed ongoing studies
    • Scholarly conceptual analyses and interpretations

Poster Award

  • First authors who are new or early career investigators are eligible for consideration for the 2025 American Psychoanalytic Association Poster Award ($500). The Award will go to the poster recognized as most noteworthy, judged based on substantive significance, innovation, and quality of presentation.

Poster Submission Materials:

  • Description and Title
  • Abstract
  • Author Information
  • Poster Description and Title
    Title to be no longer than 130 words.
    Description to be no longer than 1,500 words (this does not include references).

    The submission must include sufficient data so that reviewers may evaluate guidelines:
  • Include purpose/thesis, background/relevant questions, methods, findings, discussion, and key references.
  • Up to two tables or figures may be included, such as diagrams, pictures, graphs and illustrations of methods and resultsPoster Abstract
  • Abstract to be no more than 500 words. This abstract should be written for the general clinician audience, with an interest in research. Please ‘translate’ newer techniques or terminology if needed.
  • Author Information:
    Up to 8 authors may be listed.

Receipt will be acknowledged by email.

You are not required to submit your final poster before presentation. If your poster proposal is accepted for presentation, you simply need to bring your printed poster to the meeting for presentation.

Poster Session acceptance does not include registration for/ access to sessions of the APsA 2025 National Meeting, for which separate registration and associated fees will be required.

Please go to the application tab to submit your poster session materials.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Receipt of materials will be by email.

Acceptance of posters will be announced in late December/early January.

Process of Review of Poster Submissions

Poster submissions will be reviewed by a Selection Committee. Three criteria will govern review:

  • Clarity of formulation or conceptualization
  • Adequacy of methods
  • Appropriateness of interpretations made

Notifications of review decisions will be made in late December/early January 2024. 

Preparing Your Poster and the Poster Session

  • Posters need to be 58”w X 35”h. Pushpins will be provided to mount.
  • Use text font to be visible from a comfortable reading.
  • Posters will be displayed from 11:15am–4.00pm on Friday February 7, 2025 (set up in the morning prior to this session). The presenter must be at the poster to answer questions for this entire time.
  • Further information on the Poster Session will be provided if your poster is selected for presentation.

Potential Opportunity for Publication in JAPA

  • After the Poster Session, the Presenter may prepare a manuscript from the Poster to be considered for potential publication by The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA).
  • We will provide information regarding the JAPA guidelines and requirements at a later date.
  • Please note, submissions for potential publication in JAPA will undergo a separate review process. There is no guarantee of publication in JAPA.

Terms and Conditions for Poster Submissions

  • Membership in APsA is NOT required to submit a presentation for consideration.
  • The Poster Session will be open to the press. Submission of a poster presentation for review implies permission for media.
  • APsaA reserves the right to reject changes to a submission once it is accepted for presentation.
  • Selection decisions are final.
  • Poster submission is taken as an agreement to present an accepted format at the scheduled.
  • Poster Session acceptance does NOT include registration for/ access to sessions of the APsA 2025 National Meeting, for which separate registration and associated fees will be required.

Questions?

Please contact Konstanitinos Taliouridis, Ph.D., Psy. D., MBA

Chair, Poster Session

[email protected]

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Before you submit your proposal, please DOWNLOAD THIS PDF of the portal questions so you can be prepared.  Please refrain from submitting your proposal until you have reviewed and addressed the portal questions. 

Click HERE to submit your proposal.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 2, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern