Links to relevant sites

The GEI is an institutional member of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). This association traces its origins to the 1970's, to the small, informal group meetings held in Chicago and led by Heinz Kohut, the originator of what later came to be called self psychology. From these early beginnings, professionals interested in the study and development of Kohut's theory and practice increased in number, leading to our incorporation, in 1981. Then, in 2004, IAPSP was reorganized as a membership-based organization.

IAPSP embraces two primary, intertwined purposes. First, it retains its foundational purpose: the study, research, development, and practice of psychoanalytic self psychology. Second, in responding to challenges levied against traditional notions of the concept of self as embodied in Kohut's original work, it expands the reach of our foundational purpose. Currently, IAPSP encompasses as well contemporary notions of a dynamic systems sensibility, findings from infant and neurobiological research, and existential and epistemological philosophy.

IAPSP thus becomes an organized forum in which many current divergent theories about the human mind and its development, illness, and cure may be compared and contrasted in order to better understand and treat our patients. To learn more about IAPSP and the benefits of becoming a member, visit the IAPSP website.

Partners in Quebec

RADAR.psy (Réseau d'action et de défense des approches relationnelles en psychothérapie)

Association des psychothérapeutes psychanalytiques du Québec (APPQ)

Contemporary psychoanalysis sites

Other international associations

The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)

Canadian institutes

TICP, Toronto

TIRP, Toronto

American institutes and university programs

New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Relational Track)

Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS), New York

New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (NYIPSP)

Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology (TRISP), New York

Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP), Los Angeles

Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (ICP&P), Washington

Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), Boston

Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (MICPP), Minneapolis

Groups and Institutes worldwide

Anadolu Psikanalitik Psikoterapiler Derneği (APPD), Anatolia Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, Ankara, Turkey

Associação Brasileira para o Estudo da Psicologia Psicanalítica do Self (ABEPPS), Brazilian Association for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

Canberra and Region Self Psychology Community (CRSPC), Canberra, Autralia

Cape Town Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Group (CTPSPG), South Africa

Instituto de Psicoterapia Relacional (IPR), Institute of Relational Psychotherapy, Spain

Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity (IASPSS)

Istituto Di Specializzaione In Psicologia Psicoanalitica Dez Se E Psicoanalisi Relazionale (ISIPSE), Institute of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis, Rome and Milan, Italia