Welcome to
the Psychoanalytic Association of New York

The Psychoanalytic Association of New York, an organization of psychoanalysts established in 1955, is a component organization of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Its members, drawn mainly but not exclusively from the ranks of psychoanalysts who have been affiliated with NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, hold degrees in medicine, psychology, and social work. Its mission is to develop and disseminate to the profession advances in psychoanalytic knowledge, and to increase public awareness of the wide usefulness of psychoanalytic ideas and treatment.

PANY is firmly committed to the traditions of education, research, and patient care, and carries out its mission through several functions. Through monthly scientific meetings, it provides a forum in which scholars present recent findings in psychoanalysis, and work that deals with the relationship between psychoanalysis and other fields -- child development, the neurosciences, and the arts. These meetings are open to the public.

• To enhance the education of psychoanalytic clinicians, PANY sponsors postgraduate seminars.

• Our student aid fund assists psychoanalytic candidates to finance the cost of their training.

• Our members provide free consultation and affordable psychotherapy to individuals in training at NYU Medical Center and to their families. Medical students receive these services on referral from the Medical Student Health Service of NYU School of Medicine.

• In response to the tragedy of September 11, a PANY-NYUPI response group has provided services at no cost to those affect.

• In an effort to build bridges between our field and other groups, we have developed programs that appeal to non-psychoanalysts; one such program involves the South Asian community. We sponsored a series of lectures on the psychological and political aftermath of September 11. Currently we are sponsoring the Creative Writers and Psychoanalysts Series.

• PANY publishes the PANY Bulletin three times a year, and distributes it to members, agencies, libraries, and other institutions.

For further information please contact S. Warren Seides, President of PANY, at (914) 723-7917, or email him at wseides@aya.yale.edu