Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study is a Seattle-based, non-profit interdisciplinary organization that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses. The Alliance is dedicated to making psychoanalytic knowledge available and useful to interested professionals and to the community at large in the Pacific Northwest. The Alliance welcomes those professionals of the mental health, health care and human services, regardless of academic discipline, who seek the deeper understanding that psychoanalysis can provide.

Activities

Professional Meetings: Regular Evening meetings which provide opportunities for presentation and discussion of psychoanalytic thought.

Educational Courses: A variety of offerings each quarter, including clinical case conferences.

Special Events: Conferences featuring nationally and internationally known psychoanalytic speakers.

Annual Events: Year-end Forum conference featuring day-long series of presentations by local and regional psychoanalytic thinkers.

Study Groups: Facilitation of local study group efforts. Newsletter Regular publication mailed to Alliance members to distribute information about activities of the Alliance and other psychoanalytic organizations in the community.

Film Series: A series of selected films offered for viewing to professionals and community at large interested in film and analytic themes.

Library Resources: Access to Alliance library holdings and, through a reciprocal agreement, access to the library of Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Newsletter: The Alliance offers members the opportunity to share their writing in the Forum, which is published 3 times a year.