Section I: Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Practitioners

The purpose of this Section is to further the practice and training of psychoanalysts. This Section offers a rich program of study groups, workshops and seminars. Members must have met specific training criteria.

Section II: Childhood and Adolescence

Members are child clinicians who practice psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and who conduct research in the area of child psychoanalysis. A major goal is to increase, through the development of study groups, communications among Section members.

Section III: Women and Psychoanalysis

The purpose of this Section is to promote research and theory concerning gender and women's issues; to increase the participation of women in the roles and functions of the profession; to promote and maintain high standards of practice in the psychotherapeutic treatment of women; and, to advocate on behalf of women's issues.

Section IV: Local Chapters

This Section enables local chapters to come together in a forum to discuss local chapter development; share programs and plans; sponsor programs for the Spring meeting and the APA convention; assist in the development of new local chapters; and, foster the development of psychoanalytic education and training throughout the country.

Section V: Psychologist/Psychoanalyst Clinicians

Section V is composed primarily of clinicians who are committed to the philosophy that a variety of theoretical orientations co-exist in contemporary psychoanalysis. Its goals are to develop substantive, scholarly programs, where discourse n differing philosophical, theoretical and practice issues in psychoanalysis may flourish.

Section VI: Psychoanalytic Research Society

The purpose of this section is to promote empirical, theoretical, and clinical psychoanalytic research. It serves to facilitate the continual development and training of researchers and to broaden the role that psychoanalytic research plays in psychology, related disciplines, and the public sector.

Section VII: Psychoanalysis and Groups

The purpose of this Section is to provide a forum for those clinicians who apply psychoanalytic thinking to the theory and practice of psychoanalytic group therapy and to institutional and societal groups.

Section VIII: Psychoanalysis and Family Therapy

The purpose of this Section is to nurture the theoretical and clinical interests of psychologists/psychoanalysts who work with couples or families.

Section IX: Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility

The objectives of the Section are to promote the engagement of psychoanalysts, and psychoanalysis as a field, in important social issues. The Section sponsors events and activities in which a psychoanalytic perspective is brought to bear on social issues which may be related to prevention, education, human rights, race relations, discrimination, poverty, and violence.