Psychoanalytic Associations & Societies
Major professional organisations promoting psychoanalytic training, research, and practice worldwide.
26 organisations
- International Psychoanalytical Association
Founded by Sigmund Freud, the IPA is the world's largest and oldest psychoanalytic organisation. It sets international standards for psychoanalytic training and accredits training institutes worldwide. It has over 12,000 members in more than 70 countries.
- American Psychoanalytic Association
APsaA is the leading psychoanalytic organisation in the United States and a component of the IPA. It promotes research, education, and the practice of psychoanalysis. It publishes the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) and accredits training institutes in the US.
- British Psychoanalytical Society
One of the world's oldest psychoanalytic societies, the BPaS has been home to influential analysts such as Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion, and John Bowlby. It maintains the Institute of Psychoanalysis and publishes The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
- Paris Psychoanalytical Society
The SPP is the oldest French psychoanalytic society, founded by Marie Bonaparte, René Laforgue, and others. A component of the IPA, it is known for its contribution to French psychoanalytic theory. It publishes the Revue française de psychanalyse.
- Italian Psychoanalytical Society
The SPI is the Italian psychoanalytic society component of the IPA. With one of the largest psychoanalytic communities in Europe, it maintains training centres across Italy and publishes the Rivista di Psicoanalisi. Influenced by Freudian, Kleinian, and Bionian traditions.
- Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
APA is the psychoanalytic society of Argentina, one of the countries with the most psychoanalysts per capita in the world. Buenos Aires has an extraordinarily rich psychoanalytic culture. APA has trained generations of Latin American analysts and publishes the Revista de Psicoanálisis.
- Swedish Psychoanalytical Association
The Swedish psychoanalytic association, an IPA component, has contributed significantly to the development of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy and empirical research on psychoanalytic treatment efficacy. The Scandinavian tradition is known for integrating research and clinical practice.
- German Psychoanalytical Association
The DPV is the German psychoanalytic society component of the IPA. With a rich tradition dating back to the German pioneers of psychoanalysis, it trains analysts to international standards and maintains training institutes in major German cities.
- Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society is an IPA component that trains analysts in major Canadian cities. Known for its contributions to child psychoanalysis and object relations theory, with influence from both British and American traditions.
- International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
The IFPS is an international federation alternative to the IPA, with a more pluralistic approach that includes interpersonal, culturalist, and neo-analytic traditions. Founded by analysts who wanted greater theoretical diversity than the IPA permitted at the time.
- European Psychoanalytical Federation
The EPF unites European psychoanalytic societies affiliated with the IPA. It organises annual conferences, promotes psychoanalytic research in Europe, and represents the interests of European societies before EU institutions on mental health matters.
- Brazilian Psychoanalytical Societies
FEBRAPSI is the federation uniting Brazilian psychoanalytic societies affiliated with the IPA. Brazil has one of the largest and most active psychoanalytic communities in the world, with significant contributions to Bionian theory and group work.
- East European Psychoanalytic Institute
VEIP is one of the oldest psychoanalytic institutes in post-Soviet Russia, founded in St Petersburg shortly after the fall of the USSR. It offers professional training programmes in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, having trained thousands of professionals since its founding.
- European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The EFPP unites psychoanalytic psychotherapy organisations across Europe. It promotes training, research, and professional standards in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults, children and adolescents, and in group therapy. It has national sections in over 25 European countries.
- World Association of Psychoanalysis
The WAP brings together Lacanian schools oriented by the Freudian Field, founded by Jacques-Alain Miller following the orientation of Jacques Lacan. It coordinates schools in Europe, Latin America, and other regions. It publishes the journals Lacaniana and La Cause du Désir.
- St Petersburg Psychoanalytic Society
The St Petersburg Psychoanalytic Society continues the city's tradition as the cradle of psychoanalysis in Russia — the first Russian psychoanalytic society existed in St Petersburg from 1910. The modern society organises clinical seminars, supervisions, and training programmes.
- Moscow Psychoanalytic Society
The Moscow Psychoanalytic Society was one of the first groups to revitalise the psychoanalytic tradition in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. It promotes psychoanalytic training, conferences, and Russian-language publications.
- All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League
The OPPL is the largest professional psychotherapeutic organisation in Russia, uniting thousands of psychotherapists across all modalities. Founded by Viktor Makarov, it promotes professional standards, organises annual congresses, and coordinates training in dozens of recognised psychotherapeutic methods, from psychoanalysis to CBT and Gestalt.
- Ural Psychoanalytic Society
The Ural Psychoanalytic Society is one of the most active regional psychoanalytic organisations in Russia outside Moscow and St Petersburg. It organises conferences, clinical seminars, and psychoanalytic training programmes in the Urals region.
- National Federation of Psychoanalysis
The NFP unites psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychotherapists across Russia. It promotes the development of psychoanalysis as a scientific discipline and professional practice in the country, organises congresses, and maintains relations with international psychoanalytic organisations.
- International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
IARPP promotes the development and dissemination of relational psychoanalysis, which emphasises intersubjectivity and the therapeutic relationship as the engine of change. It organises biennial congresses and publishes Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
- International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization
IPSO is the organisation for candidates in psychoanalytic training within the IPA. It offers congresses, study groups, and support networks for analysts in training worldwide. It promotes scientific exchange between candidates from different psychoanalytic traditions.
- Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Russia)
The SPP is the organisation representing the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP) in Russia. It promotes psychoanalytic psychotherapy training to European standards, organises conferences, and facilitates professional exchange between Russian and European psychotherapists.
- European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
The ECPP unites psychoanalytic psychotherapy organisations across Europe to promote professional standards and training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It works on the regulation and recognition of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the European level and collaborates with EU institutions.
- Freudian Psychoanalysis Centre
IPA study group in Russia that trains analysts to international standards. It has been key in reintroducing psychoanalysis to Russia after decades of Soviet prohibition. Works in collaboration with the IPA and EPF.
- China Psychoanalytic Alliance
The China Psychoanalytic Alliance works with the IPA to develop psychoanalytic training in China, one of the fastest-growing fields for psychoanalysis worldwide. The Chinese training programme, unique in its scale, has trained hundreds of candidates in collaboration with international analysts.