The New York Psychoanalytic Foundation Mission

The mission of The New York Psychoanalytic Foundation is to promote psychoanalytically-informed education, treatment and research. It supports such programs both within the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and in the greater community. The Foundation is particularly committed to fostering the Institute's outreach treatment initiatives, including partnerships with underserved schools and other institutions that lack sufficient mental health services. Through a range of educational outreach programs, it strives to increase the public awareness of the contributions made by psychoanalysis to our understanding of the artistic, cultural, political and social climate in which we live.

The Foundation's Board of Directors is composed of members of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and individuals in the community with an interest in supporting psychoanalysis. It depends solely on its own Board, the membership of the Institute, and the generosity of individuals in the community to raise the funds necessary to support its mission.

Currently funds from the Foundation are contributing to the support of the Institute's Psychology Internship Program; its Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program; a partnership with Friends of the Children, a mentoring program in the public schools; scholarships for candidates in psychoanalytic training; and low-fee psychoanalytic treatment provided by the Treatment Center. Through a generous bequest made in honor of the late Dr. Peter Blos, the Foundation is in the process of establishing a Center for Adolescence that will include treatment, research and educational programs addressing the mental health concerns of adolescents in the New York City community.