The History of CAPA

Elise W. Snyder, M.D., was born in New York, graduated from Queens College (a branch of the City University) and in 1958 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons – one of 10 women in a class of 120. She has taught in several departments of psychiatry and is, at present, an Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale University College of Medicine. She is the longest member of the APsaA Board of Directors (31 years), has chaired many APsaA committees, is Past President of the American College of Psychoanalysis and the Founder and President of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. She is a recipient of the Sigmund Freud Award of the American Association of Psychoanalytic Psychiatrists and the Presidential Award of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. She has two daughters, one a psychiatrist psychoanalyst and the other a professor of English Literature at Berkeley. She is a member of (among others) the following organizations: APsaA, IPA, AAPDP, APM, APA.
CONTACT Elise W. Snyder 455 FDR Drive, 1704B, New York, NY 10002.