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2011 GRADIVA AWARD WINNERS

  • Laurence de Rosen: “Memory of a Trainee: The Birth in the Fall” published in Quadrant 2010

  • Ruben Gallo: “Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis”, MIT Press, 2010

  • Jon Mills: “Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality” Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010

  • Jay Sherry: “Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative” London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  • Mark St. Germain: “Freud’s Last Session” suggested by “The Question of God,” by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr., The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, West Side Y, 2010.

  • Marcus Silverman: “Homesickness: Rene Magritte and the Denial of Meaning in Words and Images” New York Graduate School for Psychoanalysis, 2010.

Continuing Ed Programs

Check out this link CLICK HERE for information on spring 2012 CE programs co-sponsored by NAAP and member institutes/members.

Celebration!!! A Celebration of What!!!

NAAP was created in 1972, and chartered in 1973. In 2012, it will be 40 years since the creation of NAAP. This calls for a celebration. Let’s make this a special and wonderful time together to recognize, remember, and rehearse (for the future). Let’s think together: what are we celebrating and how do we want to go about it?
First, perhaps, we are celebrating the ever evolving, indomitable human spirit. St. Augustine (354-430 CE) said: Men go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the courses of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. (Confessions)

In contrast to St. Augustine’s view, there are those who have wondered about themselves and others since time immemorial.

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Report on Waiver Application Meeting with David Hamilton

David Hamilton, Ph.D., LMSW, Secretary of the Mental Health Professions, Department of Education - NY State, met with directors of NAAP’s member institutes on Thursday, February 10, to discuss and answer questions about the Waiver application, which is now available on the website of the Office of the Professions. The Waiver is for institutes who train mental health professionals in non-licensure-qualifying programs, and for those clinical settings where multiple mental health professional licensees are providing mental health services to the public. The evening was hosted by NPAP and attended by representatives of 11 NAAP member institutes. In addition, Theresa Cosgrove of Pitta Bishop, NAAP’s lobbying representative for government affairs in Albany, NY, attended the event.

The Waiver will allow entities (institutes and clinical settings) to employ professionals from multiple licensing backgrounds in offering mental health services to the public. Additionally, Waivers provide for individuals offering these services to acquire the clinical requirements for licensing in the mental health professions.

NAAP recommends that our institutes evaluate their decision to apply for the Waiver based on their current program offerings and utilizations, with consideration toward long-term institute program development. If directors have questions about the Waiver they are encouraged to contact Margery Quackenbush at the NAAP office at 212-741-0515 and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The Waiver applications are available for qualified not-for-profit, religious, and educational corporations that are seeking a waiver from the corporate practice prohibitions in the Education Law. The applications implement the provision of Chapters 130 and 132 of the Laws of 2010 and reflect the regulations adopted by the Board of Regents in February 2011. The law and regulations allow the Office of the Professions to issue a waiver to qualified not-for-profit and educational corporations, to overcome the corporate practice prohibitions in Education Law. An entity that seeks a waiver must submit the application within 120 days of the date the applications were posted on the website (February 16, 2011), or June 16, 2011.  The entity may continue to provide professional services until the waiver application is approved, or until the application is denied or until July 1, 2012.  Institutes will find the application posted on the website of the Office of the Professions at www.op.nysed.gov/news.

Legislative Update

As we've all been reading in pretty much every newspaper everywhere, Congress and the White House are close to a deal on reform of our vast health care system. As with all matters in government, the devil is in the details of defining terms, so the critical question becomes what exactly "reform" will come to mean. Many will judge this question of meaning by the inclusion, or not, of a public option plan. Others will use cost containment and transparency in pricing as their metrics. Some will focus mostly on whether the price  of prescription drugs are contained and generics made available more readily. Whatever the metric and whatever the cause championed, this continues to be a difficult process.

As NAAP has been detailing over the past several months, we have been closely following efforts by some of our professional colleagues to include their services in federal reimbursement structures.  These efforts and proposals have been incomplete in that they do not include Psychoanalysis in the list of professional services to be reimbursed. NAAP's conversations with Senators, Members of Congress and appropriate staff have been generally well received and have involved educating policy-makers on the differences between mental health providers and the history of licensing and the internal arguments around those earlier efforts. They have been fun discussions.

The House of Representatives' Health Care Reform Bill did include a provision, among many half-baked schemes, to cover Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors without referencing Psychoanalysts. The Senate - where NAAP has had more substantive and productive conversations - did not include such incomplete language in their bill. NAAP will continue to insist that that it is necessary, fair and appropriate for any legislation seeking to include "new" mental health professionals into the range of services available to consumers of federal programs to include Psychoanalysts.

Psychoanalysis holds a place in the history of mental health care spanning over 100 years and has been sought out as a modality of treatment by consumers throughout the U.S. It should continue to be a choice of mental health care available to consumers in parity with other forms of recognized mental health treatment. NAAP's legislative priorities and activities will continue to be informed by these beliefs. We will be following conversations between the House and Senate and White House and expect that the Senate's reasonable approach and attitude towards our concerns, and so many other issues, will prevail and that once larger issues settle we will be able to press our case in a less chaotic and charged environment.