The American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis – Spring 2025 Meeting:
On May 9th, 2025, ABAP will host an important discussion and inter-institute retreat on the future of psychoanalytic training.
Program Title: Does Psychoanalytic Training Have A Future? Where Do Institutes Go From Here: An Inter-Institute Retreat
Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM (EST)- 3:00 PM
Location: C.G.Jung Institute of New York, 28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
(The program will also be available on Zoom but participants are encouraged to attend in-person).
To learn more and to Register, visit: abapinc.org/registration/
Program Description
Psychoanalytic training institutes are facing challenges to the delivery environments for mental health services, and education traditions for psychoanalytic training. This retreat brings institute leadership together to explore and grapple with healthcare delivery models in competition with other treatment modalities (e.g. medication, manualized treatments), the lack of public awareness about mental health treatment, and increasing corporate interest for offering our professional services.
These challenges also bring structural changes to our institutes that impact leadership succession (need for volunteers), financial stability, technology demands, candidate recruitment and retention, engaging our stakeholders, and best stewardship of institutional resources. How do we begin to think about our future, forward?
The retreat offers an important opportunity for institute leaders to define and begin to strategize responses to these large challenges that we face, together.
The day will be organized around a keynote address with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, co-founder of PsiAN, followed by group sessions on related topics, and a final wrap up discussion of ideas that are generated throughout the day.