Education and Training Committee

Co-chair: David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP, is the director of graduate programs in psychology and professor at the University of Indianapolis, Graduate Programs in Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, in Indianapolis, Ind. He is a diplomate in psychoanalysis, of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is one of the founders and a past-president of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education; current president of the Chicago Open Chapter for the Study of Psychoanalysis; the co-chairperson of the Div. 39 Education and Training Committee; the past-president of Section IV (Local Chapters), a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Psychology; and the president of Section V (Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Clinicians). He is the former dean of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study, in Chicago, from which he received his formal psychoanalytical education and training. He also maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical psychotherapy and consultation/supervision in Chicago and Indianapolis.

Co-chair: Barry Dauphin, PhD, president-elect of Div. 39, is the current program director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology of the University of Detroit-Mercy. Dauphin is a past-president of Section IV, Local Chapters and the current Representative to the Div. 39 Board of Section IV. He is the president of the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has a private practice in Birmingham, Mich.

Bhupin Butaney, PhD, 2016-18

Theresa Clement Tisdale, PhD, PsyD, 2016-18

Oksana Yakushko, PhD, 2018-20

Matthew Steinfield, PhD

Andrew Harlem, PsyD

• Psychoanalytical Training Opportunities in Predoctoral Internships: Opportunities and Challenges (PDF, 120KB)
  This paper is based on a presentation made at the Div. 39 (psychoanalysis), American Psychological Association’s Twenty-sixth Annual Spring Meeting, April 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Psychoanalytic-Friendly Predoctoral Internship Sites and Rankings (PDF, 46KB)

• Postdoctoral Education and Training Standards for The Specialty Practice of Psychoanalysis in Psychology (PDF, 141KB) 

• Renewal Petition for the Recognition of the Specialty of Psychoanalysis in Psychology (PDF, 736KB)

• Psychoanalytic Training Opportunities at the Internship Level (PDF, 241KB)

• The by-laws and organizational description of The American Board of Psychoanalysis in Psychology (PDF, 150KB)

• The Certification Process and Procedures for Specialty Board Certification in Psychoanalysis (PDF, 305KB)

• The by-laws of the Academy of Psychoanalysis (PDF, 142KB)

• Psychoanalysis Specialty Fact Sheet (PDF, 65KB)