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The National Accreditation Association for Psychoanalysis has announced plans to establish a national graduate university for psychoanalysis. The NAAP was originally formed to accredit psychoanalytic training institutes and certify individual practitioners on the basis of standards developed by the member institutions of the Association. The Association, under the chairmanship of Dr. Jonathan Goldberg, has undertaken the additional task of setting up The National Psychoanalytic University as a means of gaining futher recognition of psychoanalysis as an independent profession.
In its application to the Regents of the State University of New York for a charter for the new university, the Association proposed that the NPU be a multi-campus university with each of the training institutes accredited by the Association constituting one of its many campuses. Institutes emphasizing the same subspecialty within psychoanalysis would be grouped together to form departments. For example, Adlerian institutes in California, Illinois, and New York could comprise one department. Initially five such departments have been introduced, representing five specialties: Adlerian, Jungian, Traditional, Modern, and Interpersonal analysis. The University is seeking degree-granting powers to offer a Ph. D. in psychoanalysis with specialization in one of these five areas. Standards for final examination and final projects are being developed within each subspecialty. With the formation of this