Welcome to the new APS Web Site

As you can easily see, the new web site is a work in progress and slow work at that.  I hope to be able to at least keep the site updated with new information about our educational programs and new initiatives for the coming year.  Our new board members have met for our annual Board Retreat and you can review their names and contact information by clicking the link on our Main Menu.

Kathleen Erickson has assumed the presidency and her theme for the program year will be on attachment issues in work with both adults and children.  The two conferences scheduled for this year will focus on attachment issues, both from a research and clinical perspective.

We have sketched out our program year although we still must nail down dates and the final list of presenters, but the current information is available on the Upcoming Events page on our Main Menu.

We are continuing our initiative to keep graduate students active and involved in APS and in Division 39.  As you know, last year Katie Fitzpatrick coordinated graduate students to volunteer to help out at our meetings and to sell refreshments and t-shirts as a way to raise money to support the Graduate Student Assistance Fund.  This year, Mike Gawrysiak will be in charge of this effort and we hope to be as successful in raising funds as last year.  APS continues to have the largest representation of students at the Division 39 Spring Meeting. 

We are hoping to have our first public outreach in many years during this program year.  We are planning a seminar on working with gay and lesbian patients and their families and hope to have a public talk coordinated with PFLAG.  In addition, APS will join with the UT Psychology Department in developing a relationship with UT Theatre production of Oedipus Rex.  Finally, we are planning to have Deborah Luepnitz return to Knoxville next year to present a program on home and homelessness and plan to also include a public aspect to this conference.

APS has a new committee, the Early Career Professionals (ECP) Committee with the charge of developing opportunities for ECP members to both identify their particular needs and to find a place in our organization.  This committee will be modeled on the successful efforts of the Graduate Student Committee to bring graduate students into APS (and Division 39). Mark Barnes will chair this committee.

We are working on making the APS Web site more informative and effective in communicating our activities and importance of psychoanalytic learning.  If you have read thus far and are excited about the coming program year, please consider getting more active in our society by joining APS, volunteering for committee work or helping out at activities.  Contact Kathleen Erickson, Ronda Redden Reitz or Bill MacGillivray if you have further questions or comments.