New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — founded in 1911 by Dr. Abraham A. Brill — is the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the United States.^[1][2]

247 East 82nd Street, Manhattan

The charter members were: Louis Edward Bisch, Brill, Horace Westlake Frink, Frederick James Farnell, William C. Garvin, August Hoch, Morris J. Karpas, George H. Kirby, Clarence P. Oberndorf, Bronislaw Onuf, Ernest Marsh Poate, Charles Ricksher, Jacob Rosenbloom, Edward W. Scripture and Samuel A. Tannenbaum.^[3]

The institute was a professional home to some of the leaders in psychoanalytic education and treatment, such as Margaret Mahler, Ernst Kris, Kurt R. Eissler, Heinz Hartmann, Abram Kardiner, Rudolph Loewenstein, Charles Brenner, Thaddeus Ames, Robert C. Bak, and Otto Kernberg.^[4]

References

1. "history – NYPSI". NYPSI. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
2. Saki Knafo (9 September 2007). "Patching Up the Frayed Couch". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
3. Meyer, Adolf; Quen, Jacques M.; Carlson, Eric T. (1978). "New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Section on the History of Psychiatry and the Behavioral". American psychoanalysis, origins and development: the Adolf Meyer seminars. Brunner/Mazel. p. 86. ISBN 9780876301760.
4. Falzeder, Ernst, (2015). "Psychoanalytic Filiations; Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement. Routledge ISBN 978-1782200147

External links

• Official web site