APsA Fellowship
American Psychoanalytic Association
To provide an opportunity to gain knowledge about psychoanalysis and become involved in your local and national psychoanalytic community. Qualifications: Applicants must be enrolled in a D.S.W. or Ph.D. program must have received their M.S.W. in the last ten years; psychiatry applicants must, at the time of application, be full-time general or child psychiatry residents, PGY-2 or higher, or fellows or psychiatrists who have become board eligible within the previous three years; psychiatry applicants must, at the time of the fellowship, hold at minimum a half-time position with an academic department or clinical training program, and have training, leadership, or research responsibilities; Psychology graduate programs must be accredited; applicants, if predoctoral, must have completed coursework and be in or beyond the predoctoral internship; must have received the doctoral degree or completed a postdoctoral fellowship within the past five years; social work applicants must, at the time of the fellowship, have received an M.S.W. or doctoral degree in the last five years; applicants must also have begun their advanced degrees within five years of the M.S.W. Applicants must demonstrate a pursuit of applied psychoanalysis in one or more of the following areas: at least a part-time appointment with an academic department; a position in training, leadership, public policy, or research; or an interdisciplinary position offering an opportunity to teach through didactics or consultation; academic and multi-disciplinary applicants must be individuals from academia or non-mental health professions, such as the humanities, social sciences, neuroscience, medicine, law, theology, journalism, or the arts; should demonstrate a serious ongoing interest in psychoanalysis and its relationship to their primary field; should be curious about how psychoanalytic theory is used clinically; applicants must currently work in a position that influences others through education, writing, public speaking, research, organizational leadership, performance, or artistic installations; should be no more than eight years postdoctoral or, if predoctoral, be nearing completion of degree; Psychoanalytic Candidates are not eligible for the fellowship because of their ready access to mentors and scientific activities at local and national levels. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on committee criteria. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online nomination form; letters of recommendation - letter under the following convention: lastname_firstname_letterofrecommendation(1,2, or 3); personal statement - lastname_firstname_personalstatement; cv-lastname_firstname_cv. Focus: Psychology.