The February 2019 certification examination will take place at the New York Hilton, in New York City. Examination dates are Saturday February 2nd - Monday February 4th.

To be eligible to sit for the ABPsa Certification Exam an applicant must:

• be a graduate (or candidate, see pre-grad information) from an Institute that is either approved or accredited by the IPA, APsaA or ACPE
  
• have a current license to practice or if in a state that does not require licensure to provide additional information
  
• submit cases and be prepared to discuss at the examination, cases that meet the following criteria: 
• • patients of different genders
  • patients seen at a frequency of three to five times a week
  • at least one case must be terminated and the other must be at least in the middle phase of analysis
• be able and prepared to discuss a third patient
  
• comply with ethical standards.
  

In addition to the eligibility items above, for Child & Adolescent Certification, the applicant must submit a:

• case of a child in the latency phase
  
• case of an adolescent
  
• brief child report on a third child/adolescent patient (five pages)
  

The Handbook for Applicants , Handbook for Pre-Grad Applicants, and more information can be found on our website.

The February 2018 examination was held in New York City with 11 applicants in Adult Psychoanalysis of which 5 passed for a 45% pass rate, and 1 applicant for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis that passed for a 100% pass rate.  

We would like to congratulate the following individuals for passing the certification examination and becoming a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis.

Adult Certification

• Kim Boyd, MD – Boston
  
• Carol Coutu, PhD - Boston
  
• Bruce Radisch, MD – Emory
  
• Victoria Todd, MSSA - Cleveland
  
• Lyn Yonack, MSW - Berkshire

Child & Adolescent Certification

• Kim Boyd, MD - Boston
  

The ABPsa Board recently approved a Fellow Emeritus status. This new registration category was created in response to Fellows’ desires to maintain their ABPsa registry listing upon retirement and to support the value of standards. Fellow Emeritus status is available to ABPsa Fellows who, regardless of whether they remain licensed in their mental health discipline, have and remain completely retired from the practice of psychoanalysis, as well as any other psychotherapeutic activity, with patients. Their licenses and other professional affiliations must be in good standing upon retirement and remain so.  The American Board of Psychoanalysis does not certify Fellow Emeritus in the active practice of psychoanalysis.

Eligible fellows can apply for the Fellow Emeritus status by completing an application and submitting a one-time fee.  Further details and the Fellow Emeritus application is available on our website www.abpsa.org.

We migrated over to a new website platform that should make navigating our site and renewing your certification even easier!

Also note, that our phone number has changed to (303) 676-8008.

The Board of Directors approved an increase of fees for 2017-2018.

• Renewal Fee will be $150
• Application Fee is $200
• Examination Fees
• • Adult Examination $750
  • Child & Adolescent Examination $750
  • Pre-Grad I Examination $250
  • Pre-Grad II Examination $750
  • Continued examination fee is 2/3 of the full examination fee (example, in 2017-2018 the fee to continue in Adult would be $500)

These fees go into effect immediately for the 2017-2018 renewals, applications, and examinations.

Charles Parks, Ph.D. of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute joins the ABPsa Board.  To read more about Dr. Parks, check out our Board of Directors page.

The January 2017 examination was held in New York City with 13 applicants in Adult Psychoanalysis of which 9 passed for a 69% pass rate, and 3 applicants for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis with 3 passed for a 100% pass rate.  

We would like to congratulate the following individuals for passing the certification examination and becoming a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis.

CERTIFIED IN ADULT PSYCHOANALYSIS

CERTIFIED IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOANALYSIS

The ABPsa Board just approved that all three cases submitted for certification can be seen at a frequency of three to five times a week and examiners will be blind to the frequency of cases submitted for certification.

The Board of Directors welcomed Jay Kwawer, Ph.D. of the William Alanson White Institute and Catherine Kimble, M.D. of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  To read more about them, check out our Board of Directors page.