Wmaapp Information

WMAAPP offers a variety of activities to further psychoanalytic interest. We sponsor programs, courses, study groups, and discussion groups highlighting current psychoanalytic thought and issues. Speakers have included: Sophie Freud, Thomas Kohut, Carol Gilligan, Stephen Mitchell, Christopher Bollas, Anna Ornstein, Adam Phillips, and Darlene Ehrenberg, to name a few. Topics have included termination of analytic treatment, free association, dreams, treatment of trauma, psychotherapy and creativity, terrorism and narcissistic rage. We also address issues of professional practice, including the role of psychology in the military, practice in small communities, and the intrusion of third parties into the psychoanalytic situation. Our association is an umbrella group for those from diverse orientations: classical and neo-Freudian, object relational, self psychological, interpersonal, Jungian, and others. Together we have witnessed the rise in cultural influence of short term, super?cial approaches to deep inner experiences. In the face of this tide, WMAAPP continues to represent the importance of a pluralistic psychology, with its emphasis on the richness for theory and practice of individual life study in depth.