Did you give $50 to the American Psychoanalytic Foundation (APF) on your last dues statement?
Your $50 investment in psychoanalysis helped in many ways.
A child, whose army parent must suddenly live with a disability, will get treatment to truly help that child cope with serious issues.
Or a family living in a foreign culture will get information in their own language to help them understand what needs to be done to help their children.
Or it will help a returning veteran and his family cope with difficult problems for which they have no experience.
Or help a young family therapist realize that psychodynamic psychotherapy training will bring her closer to helping those people she serves.
Or help analysts and other professionals unable to go to meetings, easy access to enjoy worldwide lectures, collegial events and unique professional literature.
Any way you look at it, your donation is making meaningful and worthwhile contributions to people's lives.
Did you come to the APF party last January in New York, and enjoy the glorious music and great food? We hope you did and want you to come again this January. Your $50 did not fund that at all. Your APF committee guarantees that all the money you donate directly supports psychoanalytic projects. When we give a party, we pay for it. When we receive money for outreach, that is how we spend it.
For a lengthier posting of other great projects we have funded visit the Association Web site and click on American Psychoanalytic Foundation Committee.
Jenny Waelder Hall Consultation Training Program, Phase 11, Training in Psychoanalytically Informed Preschool Consultation for Military Mental Health Professionals.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center offers a two-year postgraduate fellowship training program to child psychiatrists and social workers in the U.S. Army and Navy. The fellows serve as consultants to the staff at the Child Development Center. This project provides the fellows with training in the process of psychoanalytically informed preschool consultation. The fellows have expressed a desire for this specific focus and training. Besides the typical issues associated with young children in daycare, children of military families face particular challenges. Many of these children have parents who are, will be, or have been deployed and will return from combat with significant mental and/or physical impairments. Many of the fellows also have been or will be deployed to Iraq. An additional outcom e of the project will be the development of a preliminary document: Guidelines for Child Care Consultation in a Military Setting.
Many of these children have parents who are, will be, or have been deployed and will return from combat with significant mental and/or physical impairments.
Helping Hands Project, a new initiative of the Houston New School in the Heights.
We agreed to support a Spanish-speaking candidate to consult with child care workers caring for Hispanic children who are at risk by virtue of emotional problems. All of the students have already been expelled from other schools. The candidate is affiliated with the Hannah Perkins School although she is located in Houston. Work with this project is not a specific requirement for her analytic training.
Veterans Project of South Florida, to provide direct clinical services, pro bono, to returning veterans and their families.
Funds will be used to inform and help clinicians work in a psychodynamic way with this community. The project is affiliated with the Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists (SOFAR) project and received support from local organizations, including the Florida Psychoanalytic Foundation.
International Psychoanalysis.net, a Web site for psychoanalytically related content designed to inform and educate a worldwide mental health community.
Proceedings of local organizations are made available, which helps them become better known and more accessible. The Web site is also geared to both young mental health professionals who are deciding about training in the psychodynamic therapies and prospective patients who are considering psychoanalytic treatment. The Web site is designed to attract people searching for material that is relevant to the interests of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, including clinical, social, and political issues.
We would like to see your project listed here. We welcome your proposal. Visit our Web site for our mission and project guidelines. Please donate as much as you are able. We cannot have fundraising drives, so your donations are our lifeblood. The outreach projects are the heart and essence of the organization. You cannot spend your money in a better way to help psychoanalysis and yourself.
Selma Duckler is chair of the American Psychoanalytic Foundation and co-chaired the Committee on Foundations. She was a guest author for 100 Q&A About Anxiety by Chap Attwell. She has been an actress, activist, and educator.