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Internationally, positive psychotherapy is represented by the World Association of Positive Psychotherapy. [4] Swiss psychiatrist G. Benedetti explained in 1979: "His model is a notable synthesis of psychodynamic and behavior-therapeutic elements, making an essential contribution to a unified relationship within psychotherapy".
The World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP) is the global umbrella organization for positive psychotherapy. Established in 1996 as the International Center for Positive Psychotherapy, WAPP comprises individual members, national associations, training institutes, centers, and representative offices at national and ...
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health [17] Association for College Psychiatry [18] Association for Contextual Behavioral Science [19] Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness; Association for Psychological Science; Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Association for Transpersonal Psychology; Association ...
The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan , and was launched at the initiative of his student and son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992.
The main objectives of the association are the promotion of psychotherapy on all continents (based on the principles in the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy in 1990), to improve the conditions of patients, to cooperate with national and international organizations to improve crisis management and peacekeeping, and to unify world training standards.
2. Promote education, training, mentoring, and varied career opportunities in personality and social psychology. Foster continuing professional education and development through conferences, workshops, and other events. Support summer institutes (e.g., SISPP) and specialized workshops.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC), with a Four-Year Program in Psychoanalysis, was founded in New York in 1986. It is a member institute of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. [36] [37] St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute [38] San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) [39]
Representatives of the societies constitute the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly, the governing body of the organization. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The association also has individual members and there are provisions for affiliation of other associations (e.g., those dealing with a particular topic in psychiatry).