APPLICATION PROCESS

Membership in ISPSO is open to all who are interested in our purpose of “exploring how psychoanalytic thinking and practices can further our study of organizations and the wider social influences that impact them.” A training in the field or a psychoanalytic therapy would make your membership more beneficial.
Our field includes the study of unconscious and conscious dynamics at play in organizations. These may include culture, leadership, followership, authority, power relations, roles, teams, networks, stakeholder relations, creativity, innovation, emotions, identity, structures, and organizational change.

We also study how wider psycho-social conditions are impacted by various forces, including, technology, globalization, and local conditions, and how changing societal dynamics such as gender and identity impact organizational dynamics. Our international membership consists of consultants, academics, clinicians, coaches, managers, leaders, students and others who apply psychoanalysis to their work. ISPSO has a diverse mixture of members with a rich exchange of ideas, best-practices, theories, knowledge, and experiences.

Any person, regardless of his or her academic discipline, profession, nationality, and theoretical or ideological outlook may apply for membership if that person can demonstrate a good understanding of and/or an active interest in psychoanalytic processes and the implications of such processes in dealing with individuals, groups, organizations, and society as evidenced by one or more of the following:

(A) Personal analysis or psychodynamic psychotherapy;
(B) Other forms of psycho-dynamically oriented experiential learning;
(C) Published paper(s) in areas of interest to the corporation;
(D) Evidence of psychoanalytically informed organizational consulting;
(E) Other academic accomplishments such as a dissertation in an area of interest to the corporation;  OR
(F) Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic training.