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Bringing together IPA recognized psychoanalytic societies across North America and Asia to foster scientific exchange, mutual collaboration, and global connection

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ABOUT NAPsaC

The North American Psychoanalytic Confederation brings together analysts, candidates, and scholars across Canada, the U.S., and our Pacific Rim partners, NAPsaC cultivates inter-regional collaboration and serves as a vital voice for psychoanalysis in modern society.

Mission

NAPsaC provides a communication channel for the IPA North American Region’s Societies and study groups to discuss their views, concerns, and interests to each other and to the IPA Board.


BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NAPsaC Board brings together representatives and alternates from independent component societies across Canada, the United States, and Asia.  It is made up of 12 groups, each with one representative and one alternate, brining the number of Board members to 24.

Meet the NAPsaC Board


HISTORY

What began as a collaborative alliance of regional societies in 2003 has grown into a vital bridge connecting institutes, candidates, and analysts globally. Learn how NAPsaC’s governance and initiatives have evolved  to serve our changing field.

Read NAPsaC History


MEMBERS

NAPsaC is an Umbrella Organization of North American and Pacific Rim Societies, Institutes and Centers within APsA, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, US Independent Societies & Study Groups, and Pacific Rim Asian Groups.

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Goals

  • Sustaining and fostering the growth of psychoanalysis within the North American Geographical Region.

  • Fostering dialogue and interchange among the various organizations within the region.
  • Providing a forum for organizing and promoting scientific conferences, meetings and personal interchange among psychoanalysts within the region.
  • Furthering psychoanalytic research by providing a forum for coordination and implementation of research projects.
  • Providing an interface between North American psychoanalysis and the IPA, as well as other regional psychoanalytic organizations in Europe and Latin America.
  • Encouraging and facilitating outreach to allied professional groups and other organizations by providing a common North American psychoanalytic voice.
  • Providing information about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic services to the public.


Painting by Carolyn Steinberg 

Current Configuration 


NAPsaC was formed in 2003 to enable the North American Component Societies of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) to communicate with each other, to collaborate on projects of mutual interest, and to facilitate scientific exchange

North American Psychoanalytic Confederation, or NAPsaC, was formed in 2003 to enable the North American Component Societies of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) to communicate with each other, to collaborate with each other on projects of mutual interest, and to facilitate scientific exchange among the three IPA Regional Groups: North America (NA), Latin America (LA), and Europe (EPF).

Although NAPsaC is composed solely of IPA Societies and Institutes (‘groups’), and represents the collective intentions of the North American component groups of the IPA, the Regional Groups of the IPA are no themselves component organizations of the IPA, that is, they do not operate as training or membership institutions. The Component Societies, Provisional Societies and Study groups serve that function. There is one exception, which occurs in North America. Via a special decree in 1939, the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) is considered a Regional Association by the IPA, and APsaA does function as a vetting and governing umbrella organization for 40 Affiliate Societies.

The IPA assigns associations, component societies, and study groups to the North American region. Currently the North American region consists of:

  1. Canada, which contains seven branch societies within the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS); 
  2. United States, which contains the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), all the Independent Psychoanalytic Societies which affiliate through voluntary membership in the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS), and one Study group (Vermont); and
  3. Asia, which contains the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society, the Korea Component Society, and the Taiwan Study group.

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