Membership

If you are a current APPI member and wish to renew your membership, you can do that here.

Membership Categories & Accreditation

Registered Practitioner Member (Accredited Member)

Full members of APPI have an option to go forward for Registered Practitioner status. This is an ‘in-house’ category of membership whereby APPI recognises a higher level of clinical experience, psychoanalytic insight and understanding. The requirements for Registered Practitioner status thus are even higher than those required for full accreditation by both APPI and the ICP.

Conditional Registered Member (Accredited Member)

The category of Conditional Registered Member refers to a candidate, already a fully trained and accredited psychoanalytic practitioner, Member of APPI and ICP, who has indicated an intention to go forward for the Registered Practitioner Membership and is preparing for this for a number of years.

Accredited Member

Membership Accreditation Criteria

APPI is committed to maintaining and fostering the highest level of excellence of accredited members. To this end APPI applies rigorous entry conditions on applicants for membership. Every accredited member of APPI is also a member of the ICP and eligible for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy.*

Please note, APPI has two deadlines for accepting membership applications for the Accredited Member category.  The dates are 5th February and 25th September each year. Applications received before 5.00pm on these dates will be processed, an interview panel will be formed and eligible candidates will be called for interview.

  APPI requirements of applicants for accredited membership are the following:

  • Four years post-graduate continuous training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy which will incorporate a Master’s qualification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Twice weekly personal psychoanalysis over a period of 4 years
  • Weekly clinical supervision over the course of the four-year training programme
  • Weekly clinical supervision for all periods while engaged in clinical practice
  • Adequate experience in one-to-one clinical practice

APPI will also require all applicants to provide the following:

  • Evidence of clinical supervision over the duration of the training programme
  • A detailed Supervisors Report
  • Evidence of engagement in personal psychoanalysis over a period of four years
  • Evidence of suitable clinical experience
  • Details of the Master’s programme content
  • Details of content of any post-master’s two-year programme
  • Support of the application from two Accredited Members of APPI

All applicants will be required to attend for interview. Prior to being offered membership of APPI and depending on particular circumstances, an applicant may be required to undertake some or all of the following:

  • A period of further clinical or academic training
  • A period of further personal psychoanalysis
  • A period of further clinical supervision
  • A period of further suitable clinical experience

APPI reserves the right to reject an application and to refuse membership where an applicant is deemed to be unsuitable. The decision of the Executive Committee will be final in such circumstance.

*The current requirements for membership of and accreditation by APPI and ICP significantly exceed those which are likely to be required when State regulation of Counselling and Psychotherapy eventually comes into force, and are in line with the European standard set by the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP).

To apply please complete the Accredited Application Form

Fees:   Please see table of fees (includes access to Pep Web).  Fee will be due once your application has been approved.

Student Member (Non-Accredited Member)

The Executive Committee of APPI welcome applications for student membership from individuals who are undergoing training under supervision.  Student Members are non-accredited members of APPI.  Applications for student membership are accepted throughout the year.  There is no interview for student membership.

Benefits of Student Membership:

  • Membership of largest professional body for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in Ireland
  • Opportunity to attend APPI events
  • Opportunity to network and engage with colleagues from diverse clinical fields.
  • Receive our regular ebulletin with news of events and developments in the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
  • Receive Lacunae – the APPI Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (published twice yearly).
  • Access to Pep Web

To apply for student membership please complete the following:

  1. Student application form
  2. A prerequisite of membership is a commitment to the Primary Object and Code of Ethics of APPI. Please ensure that you have read and signed both of these forms.  They are included in this pack.
  3. Application supported by two Accredited Members of APPI.

Fees:

There is no application fee for student membership.

Please see table of fees (includes access to Pep Web).  Fee will be due once your application has been approved.

To apply please complete the Student Application Form

Application Process: Completed application forms will be considered by the Executive Committee at the next available meeting.  Meetings usually take place once a month.

Associate Member (Non-Accredited Member)

Associate members are individuals who are interested in APPI and its work.  They do not look to APPI for accreditation and join purely out of interest in Freudian / Lacanian work.  They are interested in psychoanalysis and the unconscious life of the individual and how it affects our lives.

As an Associate Member of APPI you can have access to PEP-WEB Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing: journals, articles, books, videos – a psychoanalytic library at your fingertips.

Other Benefits of Associate Membership

  • Attend APPI events at same rates as full members.
  • Network and engage with colleagues from diverse clinical fields.
  • Receive our regular e-bulletin with news of events and developments in the field of psychoanalysis.
  • Receive Lacunae – the APPI Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (published twice yearly).

To apply please complete the Associate Application Form

Fees:   Application fee None. Please see table of fees (includes access to Pep Web)

Overseas Member (Non-Accredited Member)

Overseas membership is available to individuals who are living outside Ireland and are interested in psychoanalysis and the unconscious life of individuals and how it affects us in our personal and work lives.  Overseas members are non-accredited members of APPI.  They are members out of interest in the association and its projects.  While some may be fully trained professionals and accredited members elsewhere they do not look to APPI for any accreditation.

Benefits of Overseas Membership

  • Receive our regular e-bulletin with news of events and developments in the field of psychoanalysis.
  • Receive Lacunae on-line – the APPI Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (published twice yearly).

To apply please complete the Overseas Application Form

Fees:   Application fee None. Please see table of fees.

Research Affiliate Member (Non-Accredited Member)

If you have been hampered in pursuing an interest in psychoanalytic research because you have no access to the vast archives held by the academic institutions? Do you want to do psychoanalytic research at your own pace and in your own home?  Research Affiliate Membership would be suitable for you.

Benefits of Research Affiliate membership:

  • Access to Pep-Web (a psychoanalytic library) at very reasonable cost.
  • Receive Lacunae on-line– the APPI Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (published twice yearly).
  • Opportunity to attend APPI events at member discount rate.
  • Opportunity to network and engage with colleagues from diverse clinical fields.
  • Receive our regular ebulletin with news of events and developments in the field of psychoanalysis.

To apply please complete the Research Affiliate Application Form

Fees:   Application fee None. Please see table of fees.

CPD Log Book

All members of APPI need to keep a log book of their Continuous Professional Development. You can download it here.