SAVE THE DATE!
October 16-19, 2025
IAPSP’s 46th Annual International Conference
Westin Pasadena, Pasadena, California USA
Call for Papers and further information will be out soon!
Upcoming Events
Recordings are now Available for IAPSP’s 45th Annual International Conference: The Tragic Person Today: Existence and Meaning, In Life and in Clinical Practice
Announcing: For IAPSP Members
3 Virtual Clinical Writing Workshops with Suzi Naiburg, PhD, LICSW
Author of: Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose: A Writer’s Guide for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists
Please click HERE for more information and to register.
Congratulations to the 2024 IAPSP Early Career Professional Award Winners:
Daniel Roberts, New York, NY, USA
Elijah Davis, Zionsville, IN, USA
Yelena Kalinsky, Chicago, IL USA
Keren Garcia Arteaga, Los Angeles, CA USA
Hailee Murphy, Los Angeles, CA USA
Karl Saffron, Chicago, IL USA
Hannah Kinisky, New York, NY USA
Shana Lutker, Los Angeles, CA USA
Slindile Mbatha, Capetown, South Africa
Thato Letsatsi, Capetown, South Africa
Raphaëlle Paradis-Lavallée, Quebec City, Canada
Rachel Kaminetsky, Jerusalem, Israel
Thomas Labonté, Quebec City, Canada
The Early Career Professional (ECP) award was established to provide the opportunity to graduate students in Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Psychiatric Nursing as well as those in psychoanalytic training to become members of the IAPSP for the purpose of learning more about Self Psychology and Intersubjective Systems Theory and to participate in their advancement and proliferation.
Applications are due May 1, 2025 for the ECP Scholarship Award for 2025. For all of the information, click HERE.
Mission Statement
IAPSP is a global community of mental health professionals, scholars and students committed to improving the lives of individuals and society through the practice, development and expansion of Self Psychology and related contemporary theories.
IAPSP Social Justice
Please view the IAPSP’s Social Justice Committee’s new page: Self Psychology: Engaging the Socio-Political Realm for statements and activities.
Self Psychology: Engaging the Socio-Political Realm
IAPSP's Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
IAPSP Membership
Membership in IAPSP means being involved in an organization whose central purpose is to foster psychoanalytic self psychology as a living science and a developing profession. It means joining with a vital professional community of clinicians, scholars, and theoreticians who are at the forefront of the work first started by Heinz Kohut. Their efforts have given rise to contemporary, relational versions of Kohut’s theory.
JOIN IAPSP MEMBERSHIP HERE
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
IAPSP EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM DEADLINE: May 1, 2025 The learning and sharing of so many ideas and topics, the warm
IAPSP Writing Mentorship program is a new program to facilitate writing by matching up experienced writers with those with less
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Our Member Directory
The IAPSP Directory lists profiles for Members across the globe, searchable by location and specialism.. Includion in the directory is a benefit of membership, but the listings are freely available to search by visiting this page.
Featured Member Profiles
International Members
Associated Institutional Membership of IAPSP helps professionals and students from countries around the world to connect through our events and online discussions and resources.
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ARTICLES & FEATURES
China Psychological Competence and Academic Training Center (PCAT)
PCAT(心理猫Pcat) is a China popular psychological therapists training platform with hundreds of thousands professionals members. Its goal is to improve Chinese psychological therapists academic and clinical practice skills. We welcome all kinds of psychology related collaborations. You can contact us in China Wechat account:心理猫Pcat, or our official wechat number: 197238405, official
The IAPSP International May Conference: “The Vulture in the Room”
The IAPSP International May Conference titled "The Vulture in the Room," took place on zoom on May 20th, 2023. Colleagues from Turkey co-hosted a case presentation offered by Mustafa Çevrim, followed by discussions from Şaziye Kazezoğlu, Petra Purkarthofer, and Jackie Gotthold. Arthur Gray moderated the meeting and Ceren Göker was
2022 ECP Mentorship Reflection, by Sheila Gill, RP, MA
With the welcome boost of the ECP scholarship I was encouraged to attend my first IAPSP conference in-person in Washington, D.C. That in itself was a rich experience, with a personal highlight being the meeting of the Couples Therapy Special Interest Group. At this conference I was able to make
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