Membership
We are a welcoming community and hope that you will join us.
Please read below for membership categories, how your membership dues are used, and how to join.
Our 2025 Membership Drive is now live and will run through January 31, 2025
Membership Categories:
1. Active Members have dues of $110/year and may be:
A. Advanced candidates, graduates, supervisors, and current and retired faculty of any of the Postgraduate or Postdoctoral Training Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, the Couple Psychotherapy Program, the Group Psychotherapy Program, the Psychoanalytic Supervision Program, the Psychodynamic School Psychology Program, the Trauma Treatment Program and the Licensing Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University.
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B. Any current candidate, graduate or faculty member of any other postdoctoral or postgraduate psychoanalytic training program.
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C. Anyone with an active professional mental health license who has an interest in psychoanalysis.
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2. Out of the Area Members have dues of $55/year and may be:
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A. Any clinician who lives and practices outside of the New York Metro Area. These Members are psychodynamic clinicians who wish to take advantage of ASPP virtual events, be listed in the Private Practice Directory and who have an interest in
psychoanalysis.
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3. The Joyce Bloom Candidate and Student Membership has dues of $0/year and includes:
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A. Analytic training candidates who are currently enrolled in courses.
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B. Graduate students currently enrolled in a degree program that will lead to a clinical license, is clinically focused, or is psychodynamically oriented, such as an MSW, DSW, PsyD, PhD in Clinical Psychology or Clinical Social Work, or a Master's Program in MHC, MFT, or Art Therapy.
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Your membership dues help support:
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- An annual cycle of social events, including a Welcome Brunch for our community, quarterly "In-Between Classes Light Dinners" for candidates in classes, a Last Day of Classes dinner, and a Graduation and Garden Party in which our entire community comes together at the close of the academic year.
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- Our popular Meet the Author events and Psychoanalytic Salons.
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- Our Candidate Mentoring Program, which helps new candidates navigate the Postgraduate Programs.
- The creation and dissemination of a ASPP members-only Private Practice Directory.
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- The creation of ASPP members-only Peer Supervision Groups.
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- Psychoanalytic Salons during which members present recent papers.
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- The ASPP You Tube Channel and ASPP Website
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****Most importantly, your dues support the vibrancy and longevity of our community!
