WELCOME
Our mission is to foster an inclusive community that supports mental health professionals in the education for and practice of psychoanalytic therapies in the Western Pennsylvania region.
The Western Pennsylvania Community for Psychoanalytic Therapies is a volunteer, member-run nonprofit organization that provides education in psychoanalytic psychotherapies through the collective clinical, educational, and financial investment of the Community’s active member faculty.
What We Do
The Community’s main educational energies focus on offering longitudinal one- and two-year programs (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Concepts in Everyday Life and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Practice) for working clinicians as well as professional development programming such as meetings, lecture series, and workshops to active members and the broader community.
All our educational programming prioritizes teaching a diversity of original ideas while providing contemporary lenses through which to engage clinical work that is responsive to the complexities of the present moment: individually, collectively, socially. We foreground and try to contend with the essentially disruptive quality of the psychoanalytic endeavor.
We are committed to the belief that professional development is a lifelong learning process, that our work of becoming is always unfolding, and that we learn not only from the older generations but also from the younger generations who will one day be our community leaders.
Upcoming Programs
Annual Speaker Series Bridging Psychoanalytic Thought, Experience, and Culture
Registration is open!
Event price: Free
Dates: March 22, 2024 and April 12, 2024
Time: 6:00 P.M.- 8:00 P.M.
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Concepts in Everyday Life, One-Year Longitudinal Program
Now accepting applications.
Start Date: September 14, 2023
Time: Second Thursday of every month. 6:15pm-9:00pm
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy In Practice Two-Year Longitudinal Program
Applications preferred by August 1, 2023
Get In Touch
Reach us at – inquiries@wpacommunity.org