Local Chapters

Although local chapters are formed by Division 39 members and are part of Div. 39, psychoanalytic clinicians from other disciplines and other psychologist who are not members of the division may join a local chapter depending upon the bylaws of the local chapter.

Chapter representatives to Section IV

• Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society (APS)
  Contact: Bill Macgillivray

• Arizona Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (AzSPP)
  Contact: Janine Button

• Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (ASPP)
  Contact: Zack Ossefort

• Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
  Contact: George Strutt

• Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (CAPP)
  Contact: Donna Mahoney, PhD

• Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (CSPP)
  Contact: Mary Elizabeth Pioli, PhD

• Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (DSPP)
  Contact: Blane Brazier, MA, LPC

• Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought (ISPT)
  Contact: Matthias Beier, PhD

• Iowa Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (IAPP)
  Contact: Gabe Bodzin

• Kansas City Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (KCAPP)
  Contact: Lori G. Hoodenpyle, JD

• Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (MAPP)
  Contact: Carl Waitz

• Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (MSPP)
  Contact: V. Barry Dauphin, PhD

• Minnesota Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
  Contact: Josh Goodwin, LICSW

• Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
  Contact: Candice Turner, PsyD

• Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study
  Contact: Alejandra Morris

• Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
  Contact: Holly Edwards

• Ontario Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
  Contact: Karey Wilson

• Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
  Contact: David Ramirez, PhD, ABPP

• Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies
  Contact: Kate Roarr, PsyD

• San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
  Contact: Wayne Ehrisman, PhD

• Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (SEFAPP)
  Contact: Pascale Denis, LMHC

• Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies
  Contact: Alicia Wein-Senghas

• Washington Professionals for the Study of Psychoanalysis
  Contacts: Fonya Lord Helm, PhD, ABPP, Maurine K Kelly, PhD, FIPA

• Washington Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
  Contacts: Rebecca Goldberg, LCSW, MSW

Total Members: 85
Total SPPP/Division 39 Members: 25
Total Students: 10

Recent Programming: 

December 7, 2024: Saturday Morning Seminar: Mark S. Horner, PhD

November 23, 2024: Francoise Davoine - Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of War

October 5, 2024: Saturday Morning Seminar: Jack M. Barlow, PhD, and Timothy L. Hulsey, PhD

February 22, 2025 - Saturday Morning Seminar: Exploring Dynamics around Gender and Sexual Identities of Clients with Vida Khavar, LMFT. Morrisons' Conference Center, UTMC.

March 15, 2025 – Saturday Morning Seminar: The Shadow of Axis II and the Clinical Situation, with Mark Waugh, PhD, ABPP. Morrison's Conference Center, UTMC. Dr. Waugh will address clinical evaluation of personality functioning using the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and emphasize the need for projective assessment of narrative data.

Future 2025

April 5, 2025 - Spring Conference: Geographical Narcissism, with Malin Fors, Lighthouse Conference Center, 6800 Baum Drive, Knoxville, TN. Dr. Fors will address how to counter urban norms by empowering rural subjectivity and the implications for treatment.

May 3, 2025 – Saturday Morning Seminar: The Difficult to Reach Adolescent, with Jim Gorney, Morrison's Conference Center, UTMC.

June 2025 – Paul Lerner Scholars Symposium, with Annie Lee Jones, Morrison's Conference Center, UTMC Date and topic TBD

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Total Members: 258
Total SPPP/Division 39 Members: 78
Total Students: 16

Recent Programming: 

"The Consequences of Childhood Attachment Trauma," In-person, Ellen Nasper, PhD; "EC Members Networking Lunch," In-person; Susanne Weil LCSW and Jane Carter, PhD; Clinical Conference - "Are You Gay Too?," Hybrid, Sam Guzzardi, LCSW; "Re-examining Psychology in the Era of Climate Disruption," In-Person, Steffi Bednarek and Wendy Greenspun; "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with those with Developmental Disabilities," In-Person, Robert Hamm, PhD; "Two Faces of Acceptance: Self-Compassion and Self-Love", In-Person, Carol Freedman, LCSW, PhD; "Emotional Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of Trauma," Hybrid, Galit Atlas, PhD; "Eastern CT and New Haven Regions Get Together ," In-Person, N/A; "Encountering Representations of Evil," Hybrid, Donald Moss, MD & Shelley Amen, MD, PhD; "Clinical Conference Essays on Transference, Love, and Being in Psychoanalysis," Online, Andrea Celenza, PhD; "Changing our Minds: Neuroscientific Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Action," In-Person, Andrew Gerber MD, PhD; "For Early Career & Student Members: An Exploration of Basic Psychodynamic Theory and Practice: An Interactive Discussion," Online, Dee Unterbach, LCSW, DSW; "Reading Thomas Ogden," Online, Elinor Kotchen, LCSW; "Psychological/Neurological Assessment Service: Relational, Professional & Logistical Considerations for Therapists," Online, Ryan Ochoa, PsyD; "Psychodynamic Challenges of the Middle Phase of Treatment," Online, Ira Moses, PhD; "Encountering Representations of Evil," Hybrid, Donald Moss, MD; "Fairfield County Region Movie Discussion," In-person, N/A; "Early Career Mini-Meeting: Kohut’s Self Psychology: Recognizing and Responding to Healthy Developmental Strivings," Online, Nancy L. Bronson, PhD; "Who's on My Couch? BIPOC patients and the natural environment," Hybrid, Chanda Griffin, LCSW; "Fairfield Region Winter Gathering," In-person, N/A.