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Division 39 Sections
Section V.
Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Clinicians
Section V was established within Division 39 to represent and foster diversity and pluralism in psychoanalysis through a varied program of professional activities.
We think that psychotherapy practice which recognizes the unconscious (that is, meaning and motivation which are outside of awareness), honors the importance of the developmental history of the individual, and makes use of an exploration of the relationship between the therapist and the patient is psychoanalytic.
We think that psychoanalysis should be a discipline of inquiry not an orthodoxy of belief. That is, that our work, on both the theoretical and the clinical level, is distinguished by the questions being asked and not by the answers which may seem to have been found. We believe that answers are inevitably provisional. Our programs, essay contests, website discussions, CE program, panels and lectures are informed by this worldview.
We see psychoanalytically informed practice as a vital protection against the assaults on inner life and individual spirit that have come as a consequence of the industrialization of health care and of psychotherapy in particular.
We think that being a psychoanalyst is a matter less of curriculum vitae than of worldview. It is our mission to both defend and extend this worldview.
Section V Officers:
President: David Downing
Section Rep: Robert Prince
Treasurer: Barry Dauphin
Secretary: Henry Seiden
The Section V Newsletter is available to all interested Division 39 Members at the Section V Web Site
Contact Info
For further information contact Sectionfive@sectionfive.org
For additional info on Section V, please check out our website at
http://www.sectionfive.org/
© Division of Psychoanalysis, 1999-2003
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