National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) is a New York City organization founded in 1948 by Theodore Reik. It was created to address debates over lay analysis and how psychoanalysts should be trained in the United States.
Following Freud’s example, NPAP offers training to people from medicine, social work, and psychology, as well as graduates from the humanities.
Over the years, disagreements inside NPAP led to the creation of other non-medical training groups in the United States.
NPAP sees itself as a diverse professional association with many psychoanalytic approaches. Its members work in research, publishing, legislation, public education, and culture, bringing psychoanalysis to the wider community.
NPAP publishes The Psychoanalytic Review, the oldest continuously published psychoanalytic journal in the United States.
The Institute provides psychoanalytic training to prepare candidates for professional practice.
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