The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry is dedicated to providing psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychiatrists with a forum for exchanging ideas, a paradigm for leadership in advocating for psychoanalytic principles in psychiatry, and a voice for promoting psychodynamic understanding in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric patients in medical education and residency training as well as within the American Psychiatric Association.

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Message from the President

César A. Alfonso M.D., FAAPDP

In Search of a Cultural Psychiatry Paradigm Based on Psychodynamic Theory

Victor J. Teichner Award Teichner Scholars Program

Scholars | Psychiatric Residency Programs
Providing Psychiatric Residencies
with Expert Psychodynamic Teachers

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

The Official Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
Editor: Richard C. Friedman, M.D.
Deputy Editor: Jennifer Downey, M.D.

57th Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA - May 16-18, 2013

“Psychodynamics: Essentials to the Issue of Suicide and Other Challenges to Modern Day Psychiatry”

Program Chair: Mary Ann Cohen, M.D.
Chair of Scientific Program Committee:
Eugenio Rothe, M.D.
Call for Papers Meeting Details

The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
Executive Director: Jacquelyn T. Coleman, CAE
One Regency Drive - P.O. Box 30 - Bloomfield, CT 06002
Tel: 1-888-691-8281 - Fax: 860-286-0787 - E-Mail: info@aapdp.org