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SPECIALTIES REPRESENTED on CoS
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis
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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.
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Overview of Organization and Goals:
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Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Presentation 2022
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Bylaws:
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Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Council
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Levels of Specialty Training:
Education, Training, and Supervision in the practice of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology is available only at the postdoctoral level, and requires a successful personal analysis, formal theoretical and applied clinical study, and supervision in the practice of psychoanalysis.
Specialty Board Certification:
Board Certification in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis is available through the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis in Psychology (ABAPsa), which is a Specialty Board of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).
Sources of Specialty Recognition:
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APA/CRSPPP recognition
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ABPP recognition
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Specialty Council Membership:
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Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association (APA)
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American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis in Psychology (ABAPsa)
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