The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the United States, has a long history of leadership in psychoanalytic training and scholarship. At the beginning of the 21st Century, it remains dedicated to utilizing modern psychoanalytic principles to provide the finest educational, research, and community service activities for mental health professionals and the general public.

Our members, faculty, and students are heirs to a long tradition dating back to the founding of the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1911 by A. A. Brill, one of the first practicing psychoanalysts in the United States. He was a leader in American psychoanalytic education, the first translator of Freud into English, and a public advocate for psychoanalytic ideas. In 1931, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute was established and more formal psychoanalytic education began. Over the decades many renowned analysts made their professional home at NYPSI. These included Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, Rudolph Loewenstein, Margaret Mahler, Berta Bornstein, Jacob Arlow, and Charles Brenner.

Currently, NYPSI continues its commitment to the finest scholarship, education, and research. Our members include two former editors of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Theodore Shapiro and Arnold Richards) and a former editor of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly (Sander Abend).

Our rigorous educational activities include the training of psychoanalytic candidates and psychotherapy students, as well as professionals in mental health and other fields whose work is enhanced by a psychoanalytic perspective. NYPSI also provides a variety of postgraduate educational opportunities and other benefits for the enhancement of its own members’ intellectual and professional lives.

Clinical and community service activities include: Low-fee psychoanalysis and psychotherapy through the Treatment Center; parenting education; early childhood and school consultation; clinical outreach to mental health institutions; collaboration with community and social agencies; and partnerships with cultural institutions in the arts and sciences.

Research activities are conducted in collaboration with other academic centers to investigate and further the development of psychoanalytic theory and technique, and to advance the application of psychoanalytic ideas to other fields.

All of the educational programs at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute are conducted under the auspices of the Dean of Education and the Associate Dean of Education for Child and Adolescent Analysis.