The seventy-six charter members who founded the academy were concerned that focus on certification associated with a rigid Freudian framework inhibited discourse about basic psychoanalytic concepts.
Since the inception of the academy, great changes have taken place in the practice of psychoanalysis and in the application of depth psychology to psychiatric symptoms, syndromes and disorders.
All activities of the academy foster communication and discussion of psychodynamic concepts as expressed in clinical treatment, research, psychological development and diverse other ways as well.
The central tenet of the journal is that psychodynamic principles are necessary for adequately understanding and treating people with psychiatric symptoms, syndromes and disorders.
From 1958 to 1972 the academy published its proceedings in monograph form under the rubric "Science and Psychoanalysis" edited by Jules Masserman.
[2] The Academy Forum is a magazine that is published twice yearly and focuses on psychoanalytic and psychodynamically oriented articles about art and culture.
A grateful patient established a fund making it possible to impart the spirit of Teichner's creative therapeutic perspective to psychiatric clinicians in training.