Formal Specialty Definition
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis is a postdoctoral specialty, which provides comprehensive theories of normal and abnormal human personality development, adaptive and non-adaptive interpersonal and social relationships, and an understanding of the foundations of creative and artistic expression. Human cognitive, affective, and behavioral experience is understood to include both the conscious and the unconscious dimensions of human psychic life. Psychoanalysts study, diagnose, and treat psychological and psychosomatic symptoms, difficulties of development and character formation, and problems of interpersonal relationships, social and cultural adjustment, and psychological interferences in creative expression.
Overview of Organization and Goals
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis SpecialtyPresentation 2022
Bylaws
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Council
Bylaws PPPPSC Revision.10.1.2024
Levels of Specialty Training
Specialty in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology
Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Subspecialties in Professional Psychology
Subspecialty in Psychoanalysis
Specialty Board Certification
Board Certification in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis is available through the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology (ABAPPP), a Specialty Board of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).
Sources of Specialty Recognition
- APA/CRSPPP recognition
- ABPP recognition
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Council Membership
- Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA)
- American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology (ABAPPP)
Specialty Related Web Links
- Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology) American Psychological Association
- The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology