Welcome to the Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies

Founded in 1993 in order to build a local gathering place for a community whose members shared interest in psychoanalysis, the Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies (RIAPP) has provided a forum for scholarly, clinical, professional, and community exchange for over 30 years.

RIAPP aims to highlight cutting edge theory, research, and clinical application through our yearly lecture series and conferences. Our philosophy encourages a comparative orientation that affords an integrative and pluralistic approach. While our programming focuses on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic orientations, we welcome non-mental health professionals, students, and people from other disciplines to join the our community.

We recognize the long history of marginalization of underrepresented groups within psychoanalysis, and we acknowledge the people oppressed by institutional racism, classism, misogyny, transphobia, and the many other -isms. We are continuously working on encouraging ourselves and our community to engage in conscious, active, and ongoing work to dismantle the systems of oppression, and to sit with personal and collective discomfort in the process. Our goal is to use our voices and our programming to highlight the voices that have been silenced, to broaden perspective, and to promote inclusion.