Association for
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy
in the
National Health Service
Established in 1981, the APP is an organisation formed to advance the practise of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the National Health
Service and other Public Services. The APP helps to co-ordinate activities and educational facilities for psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
The APP represents members' views in the NHS and other public services to encourage the development of a psychodynamic perspective in these settings.
The first members of the APP were medical
consultant psychotherapists who had been trained as psychoanalysts. Now members include
non-medical psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working in public service settings with
adults or children. The APP is an evolving organisation and now has many Specialist
Sections addressing the particular concerns of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists working in
diverse settings within the Public Services.
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