There are many benefits to being a student member of PSPP including discounted events, discounted membership, mentorship, and networking! The first year of PSPP membership is free for graduate students. If you have any questions pertaining to graduate students membership benefits and PSPP involvement, please email our Graduate Student Representatives (Will Boyd, Zoë McNichols, or Ravi Louis)

Mentorship Program

Every year, graduate student members have the opportunity to be paired up with a psychodynamically trained clinician in the local area for regular mentoring sessions. This could be a year long relationship, multiple years, or a lifelong one. Dr. Barbara Goldsmith and Dr. Elena Husko, the coordinators of this program, go through a very careful process for matching students with mentors based on their application. For more details please see the PSPP Mentorship Program page. Please note that you must be a PSPP Student Member to be eligible.

Scholarships

The Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP; Division 39 of APA) welcomes applications for the Division’s Scholars Program. Applications are accepted for this program from students or early career professionals who have an interest in psychoanalytic psychology/psychoanalysis. The program will run from the next SPPP Spring Meeting until the following Spring Meeting a year later.

The Scholars Program is sponsored by several sections and committees within the Division, including:

•  Multicultural Concerns Committee
•  Sexualities and Gender Identities Committee
•  International Relations Committee
•  Graduate Student Committee
•  Early Career Professionals' Committee
•  Candidates Outreach Committee
•  Section II
•  Section IV

Scholars Program benefits include:

•  An attendance stipend to support scholars in attending the spring meeting (attendance is a program requirement)
•  Free registration for the spring meeting
•  A mentor with whom the Scholar will meet at least monthly
•  Subscriptions to all Division 39 publications
•  Free access to Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web)
•  Membership to the Division as well as the section or committee they apply through for the scholarship year.

PSPP Travel Award Application
PSPP makes funds available, on a yearly basis, to support our graduate students and early-career professionals who wish to attend Div 39’s Spring Meeting.

Under this Travel Award, we hope to offset some of the costs associated with registration, travel/lodging, and presenting to our members who demonstrate financial need.

Please watch for an announcement via both our mailing list and listserv several months before every Div 39 Spring Meeting!

A successful application will include:

• A description of reasons for attending the Div 39 Spring Meeting and its connection to psychodynamic/psychoanalytic work

• A description of expenses incurred with accompanying receipts (registration fees, conference travel and lodging expenses, poster preparation expenses, and presentation expenses constitute appropriate expenses)

The applicant must also demonstrate:

• Living/working/studying in the Greater Philadelphia area

• Evidence of interest in, and commitment to studying and promoting psychodynamic/psychoanalytic ideas

• Contribution of service hours to PSPP, past, present, or pledge for future service, along with current membership status

• Brief statement of financial need. Please limit your application to 500 words or less

Graduate Student Representative

Graduate students who are interested in becoming more directly involved with PSPP may want to consider joining the PSPP board as a graduate student representative. Individuals who have served in this capacity have had the opportunity to attend PSPP board meetings, collaborate with board members on various PSPP sponsored projects, as well as develop programming specifically geared towards meeting the professional development needs of graduate students. Please contact the current Graduate Student Representatives and/or Graduate Student Committee members to learn more about this opportunity.