Over the past five years, APsaA members have contributed an average of nearly $30,000 each year to support projects funded by the American Psychoanalytic Foundation (APF) Committee. Please consider including a contribution for the Foundation when you submit your 2011 membership dues. Also, on this page is an invitation to meet the committee and discuss your proposals or ideas for projects related to the APF Committee mission of public outreach.
Here is a list of our most recent grants.
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
Sydney Anderson, Ph.D.—Applied Psychoanalysis in a Community-Based School and Treatment Center for At-Risk Children
Psychoanalysis in the Community
Marie G. Rudden, M.D.—Teaching principles and practices of psychoanalytic group interventions to local psychoanalytic communities
APsaA Affiliate Council
Scientific Paper Prizes
“New School in the Heights”
Diane Manning, Ph.D.—Psychoanalytic Schools Symposium, inviting community educators to participate in learning about psychoanalytically informed school environments for at-risk children
InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Arnold Richards, M.D.—Uploading tapes to InternationalPsychoanalysis.net, a publicly accessible blog about psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Ralph Fishkin, D.O.—Development of an e-Learning Resource for Psychoanalytic Education
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
Roberta L. Sorenson—To provide psychoanalytically informed consultation to the Jubilee JumpStart Program, a community preschool
University of Miami, School of Education
Marie-Claude Rigaud, M.D.—Haitian Mental Health Summit, a convocation of stakeholders seeking to develop a plan for reconstructing the mental health system in Haiti after the disruption caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake
Sandra C. Walker, M.D., is chair of the American Psychoanalytic Foundation Committee.