Fund for Psychoanalytic Research supports researchers and beginning scholars with research, pilot studies, consultation, and career development to test psychoanalytic ideas and advance the field.
Funding priorities shifted from broadly defined scholarly and empirical research toward rigorous empirical projects testing psychoanalytic hypotheses, with particular support for experimental work. Proposals should now explicitly connect their aims and significance to uniquely psychoanalytic positions, questions, and theories; intellectual history, philosophy, and other scholarly work remain eligible.
Supports innovative projects that advance public understanding and dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas and services.
The Candidate Assistance Fund from the American Psychoanalytic Association offers interest-free loans to support advanced scientific and clinical training for psychoanalyst trainees.
Division 39 Marsha D. McCary Fund Grant for Psychoanalysis supports psychologists’ education, research, and service projects to advance psychoanalysis and public understanding of its value.
Norine Johnson, Ph.D., Psychotherapy Research Grant for Early Career Psychologists supports early career researchers’ empirical studies of psychotherapy to advance understanding of relationships, processes, and outcomes.
Walter Katkovsky Research Grants support early-career psychologists studying how psychotherapy promotes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive change, with the goal of informing the psychotherapy process.