Executive Committee

Mission

Members

Pamela Armstrong-Manchester (President and Chair); Jennifer R. Harper (Past President), Douglas F. Maxwell, Pearl Appel, Patricia Bratt, Jessica Mitchell

Analyst-in-Training Committee

Mission

Analysts who are in training at any of the various institutes which are NAAP members meet to discuss issues relevant to training and practicing as psychoanalysts. The committee meets to discuss public seminars to enrich and enhance our understanding of the practice and life of the psychoanalyst. The committee is currently working on finding venues to create a "psychoanalytic salon" within the organization.

Members

Neil Friedman (Chair), Regula Muggli (WSI), Brian Thornton, Ed Haas (CGJ-NY), Lisa Thomas, Aimee Johnson (BPI)

Conference Committee

Mission

Presented by the World Organization and the Public Education Corporation of NAAP, the annual conference presents a major topic of psychoanalytic inquiry concerning the public community and does so through a representation of the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.

Members

Patricia Bratt, Conference Chair, Pamela Armstrong-Manchester, Allison Avery, Denise Lanes, Mary Massaro, Margery Quackenbush, Annette Vaccaro

Continuing Education Committee

Mission

The Mission of the Continuing Education Committee is to provide NAAP members and members of the professional psychoanalytic community at large with seminars, workshops, and programs concerning educational, scientific, cultural, or artistic topics relevant to psychoanalysis that will advance the profession of psychoanalysis and promote the professional development of the individual. These include: 1) New theoretical and clinical perspectives as they develop in the field of psychoanalysis; 2) Research findings that validate or challenge psychoanalytic theory and practice; 3) Reviews, comparisons, and contrasts between classical psychoanalytic concepts and other existing or developing schools of thought; 4) Artistic and cultural developments relevant to psychoanalysis.

Members

Eleanor M. Davis, Arlene Aryeh Maidenbaum (Co-Chairs)

Michael Conforti, Brian Feldman, Natalie Riccio

Cultural Affairs Committee

Mission

The Cultural Affairs Committee provides a venue for NAAP and its membership to address public, professional, and social issues in our culture today, from a psychoanalytic perspective. Through these arenas this committee seeks to structure and create opportunities for NAAP and the profession of psychoanalysis to achieve a voice of recognition for psychoanalysis as a direct expression and practice within the field of mental health. The Cultural Affairs Committee serves as a critical voice in our culture for human concerns at large. The committee is compromised of NAAP members, including regional representatives, in balance with members from outside the profession of psychoanalysis who represent a variety of expressions of culture. This committee seeks persons with professional backgrounds representing the academy, religious institutions, business interests, media, the arts, and social/political concerns who themselves share an interest in promoting greater public awareness for psychoanalysis. The purpose of this mix of backgrounds is to foster an exchange between psychoanalysis and other professions with the aim of discovering ways in which our profession can achieve a clearer sense of its mission in our culture today.

Ethics
Committee

Mission

NAAP maintains a code of psychoanalytic conduct of its members and investigates any questionable behavior of an analyst to ensure that the highest standards of practice are being maintained.

Members

Eileen T. Kaufman (Chair), Bernard Blank, Sander Breiner, Christine Durbak, Michael Gerson, Dorothy Kurlander, Gerald Schoenewolf, Elliott Schuman.

Finance
Committee

Mission

The Finance Committee ensures the proper and efficient financial operation of NAAP, its expenses, and budgets.

Members

Pamela Armstrong-Manchester, Pamela Donleavy

Gradiva Awards Committee

Mission

The awards were inspired by Freud's DELUSIONS AND DREAMS IN JENSENS's GRADIVA (1907(1905)) in which he stated, "Creative writers are valuable allies and their evidence is to be prized highly, for they are apt to know a whole host of things between heaven and earth of which our philosophy has not yet let us dream" they draw upon sources which we have not yet opened up for science."

Recalling Freud's words, NAAP established the Gradiva Awards to honor our "valuable allies" including poets, artists, producers, directors, publishers, etc., who have created works that advance Psychoanalysis. Each winner receives a handsome brass plaque etched with the image of Gradiva, which is based on a Pompeian relief similar to one that hung in Freud's office. An additional award plus a $500 scholarship is also given for the best student work that advances Psychoanalysis. The awards are presented at a ceremony during the annual NAAP conference in New York City.

Members

William J. Hurst (Chair), Robert Cuccioli, Sandra Indig, Merle Molofsky, Lynn Somerstein

Membership Committee

Mission

Members

Florence Kleiman

Membership Registration
Committee

Mission

The MRC admits for registration certified psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists who meet all NAAP standards. It develops and maintains the highest standards of training and experience for NAAP applicants. The committee's review process ensures that the applicants have fulfilled NAAP training requirements as part of their institutes' certification process. Please click on the Members link at left to register.

Members

Dorothy Lander (Chair), Linda Holahan, Valerie Frankfeldt, Ellen Mendel