Psychoanalysis is indeed a whole climate of opinion and your American Psychoanalytic Foundation (APF) Committee is committed to advance awareness of analysis by providing as much funding as we can to support worthy projects. We want to make psychoanalytic knowledge practical and real in its ability to reach communities that will benefit from your hard work and expertise. We invite your proposals and offer practical encouragement and help. Our mission and guidelines to our process are on our website at apsa.org.
We are a connection to support and launch your program, book, project, or film. But we can’t make this happen without money. The money we receive from your donations via the Association’s budget process is not enough to fund all the worthy projects seeking our help. What you donate to us when you pay your dues is so needed and much appreciated.
Realistically, the $50 suggested donation of former years is not enough to meet today’s costs. We are asking you to give more for today’s actual needs. No need to wait until you pay annual dues. Donations to the American Psychoanalytic Foundation Committee go directly and only toward supporting projects that receive favorable consideration by our review process. We don’t use your donations for anything other than giving the proposals life. Your donation is also a meaningful way to honor and remember someone by giving a gift in their honor. Such a gift supports worthwhile programs that are of priceless value toward spreading the awareness and influence of psychoanalysis.
We have supported such programs as the Philadelphia Youth Psychotherapy Project (YPP), which has been furthering the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia’s vision of serving a broader community by providing psychotherapy to vulnerable youth in two Philadelphia high schools since October 2017. The students are from high poverty environments with repeated exposures to violence, neglect, and disrupted attachments. More than 25 of the students in YPP partner schools are mothers, several of whom have had multiple births.
We also gave a small amount to the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Bilingual Clinical Program, a one-year program that brings low fee treatment to immigrants and refugees as well as offering monthly case discussion, training, and mentoring by national experts to emerging clinicians.
We supported publication, from Jacob Arlow’s unpublished archives, his paper on “Evolution of Thinking about Unconscious Fantasy.”
We provided some funding to the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis for the reflective parenting incubator project that provides parenting training at SFCP and preschool sites.
Further, we provided some support to the Children’s Psychological Health Center, which offers a psychoanalytically derived method for treating Native American preschoolers with special needs.
For one who’d lived among enemies so long: If often he was wrong and, at times, absurd, To us
Page 32he is no more a person Now, but a whole climate of opinion
For Sigmund Freud
W.H. Auden
Unfortunately, we were not able to provide the full funding requested for these worthy projects.
Our own members are often the beneficiaries of our projects. These include the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s conversion of archival film, transcripts and photos to digital format; San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s 75th anniversary commemorative book; Irene Willis’s book Sigmund Freud in Poetry; the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles’s exhibition of videotaped oral histories from emeritus members; development of Mental Minutes, a pilot series on a local radio station of one-minute tips on mentally healthy living; Presenting Problems, short films showing narrative based stories on a variety of psychological roles faced by both patient and therapist; transfer of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute archive of videotapes of its lectures and programs onto the NYPSI website; and many other extraordinary programs.
What we do is of prime importance to our institutes, to the public we serve, and to maintaining our history of helping needy communities and creating models of superb analytic involvement that can be duplicated in many other places. We know we are providing meaningful lasting help that conveys to communities the treasured, unique value of psychoanalysis and its applications.
We members of the APF Committee are very proud of the work we do and the influence our support has in the areas we fund. Many of these projects would never be realized if not for us.
Please help us continue this esteemed treasured work. It is a labor of love and of practicality in today’s world. The financial support from APsaA members is our greatest asset, one that we give back to the psychoanalytic community and to the communities we serve.