Membership
Connect with colleagues in the fields of mental health and psychoanalysis.
The following Membership Categories have changed starting with the 2026-2027 renewal year. If your membership type was any of these levels, they will be automatically changed for you and you will be able to renew at the new member category or another level if you choose. There will no longer be Scholar, Student or GW Faculty type of memberships.
– Scholar Members will change to Basic Members
– Student Members change to Friend Members
– GW Faculty Members change to Friend Members
– Active Life will now be known as Life Partially Retired
– Life members will now be known as Life Fully Retired
Who we are
The WBCP membership community are professional, passionate, thoughtful clinicians and scholars interested in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a treatment modality, as a theory of mind, and as a tool for psychoanalytic research. Most of our members maintain a private practice and many teach and provide supervision with WBCP as well as at area universities and medical schools. A well-published community with a special interest in writing, we are committed to multidisciplinary exchange and lifelong learning.
Why join
Study Groups and Optional Classes
The goal of our study groups is to provide and facilitate the highest quality psychoanalytic educational opportunities for Center members, trainees, and students. Study Groups improve professional competence through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge, promotion of habits of critical inquiry and balanced judgment through educational and training activities. Examples include: Art and Psychoanalysis; Neuropsychoanalysis; & Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in the Internet Age. Continuing education credit is granted for most study groups and optional courses.
Continuing Professional Education
The programs of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis provide continuing professional education credits for physicians, for psychologists and for social workers. Center credits also can be submitted for LPC re-licensure. Please see the individual program sections for details.
Scientific Meetings
Scientific Meetings and workshops on psychoanalytic topics are organized each academic year. The topics address the interests and needs of members and candidates. Please check the Event calendar on our website at www.wbcp.org for up to date information and to register.
E-Newsletter
The E-Newsletter is an in-house publication that includes discussion of issues of interest to members of the Center and has regular reports from the President and from various committee chairs. It is a forum for members to communicate about current topics and events related to psychoanalytic thought. The editor of the newsletter is responsible to the Board of Directors.
Referrals
The WBCP website maintains a member directory of our psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who wish to have referrals from the membership at large or the general public.
Auditing Courses
Center members may audit a course of the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, either in the Adult or Child/Adolescent program, without charge and with the consent of the Curriculum Committee and the seminar leader or instructor.
PEPWEB
Full members of the Center automatically receive a subscription to Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEPWEB). PEPWEB provides online access to all but the most recent issues of many leading psychoanalytic journals and some books, and includes the entire Standard Edition of Freud’s collected works. PEPWEB also enables users to search the literature by author, topic, or key words.
Virtual Community
The WBCP Member website is a virtual community which has many member-only features, including discussion forums, a bulletin board for referrals and other services, a directory search, the event calendar, online registration for all events, and many more. All members have a profile page through which they can access member-only forms and documents and pay dues or program fees online.
Membership
Categories
The following is information about our different membership levels.
2026-2027 Membership Dues
Full Member: $1180
A. Eligibility
- This category is open to anyone who wants to participate fully in the mission of the Center and is a requirement for being on the Faculty or chairing a program or committee.
- Students enrolled in Institute training programs, by virtue of their tuition payments, are Full members of the Center.
- First-year graduates of Institute training programs will receive a 75% discount for Full membership for one year after graduation., followed by 50% for the second year, 25% for the third year.
B. Benefits
- Voting Privileges
- Eligibility for appointment to faculty for teaching and supervising in Center training programs
- Member listserv
- Online Membership Directory
- Complimentary PEPweb subscription
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Member Discount for Center conferences and other events
- Inclusion in the Find A Therapist Directory
Basic Member: $455
A. Eligibility:
- This level of membership is open to anyone with limited benefits.
B. Benefits:
- Member listserv
- Membership Directory
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Can chair Center committees
- Discounts for Center conferences and events.
- PEPweb is available for an additional $120.
New Professional: $310
A. Eligibility
- This category is open to people who have graduated within the previous three years from an academic mental health program at a graduate level (MSW, PH.D., Psy.D., MD, MSN etc.).
- Membership in this category is limited to three years.
B. Benefits
New Professionals have the same benefits as Basic Members:
- Member listserv
- Membership Directory
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Discounts for Center conferences and events.
- PEPweb subscription available for an additional cost of $125.00
Corresponding Member: $125
A. Eligibility
- This category is open only to Full members of other APsA or IPA Institutes.
- Corresponding members of other institutes/centers must be voting members of their “home” Institute/Center.
B. Benefits
Corresponding members have most of the privileges of Full members, with the exception that: they may not vote, and need special permission to be eligible for appointment to the Faculty.
The benefits are:
- Member listserv
- Membership Directory
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Discounts for selected Center conferences and other events
- Can chair Institute and Board Committees and Programs
- PEPweb subscription available for an additional cost of $125.00
Friend Member: $130
A. Eligibility
- This category is open to anyone.
B. Benefits
- Member listserv
- Participation in one Center Study Group for fee of $50
- Continuing Education credits for Study Group for an additional $50
- Online membership directory
- PEPweb subscription available for an additional cost of $125.00
Life Partially Retired: $590
Fee is 50% of Full Member Fee
A. Eligibility
- This category is open to those members who are 70 years old and have obtained 10 years of continuous Full Membership in the Center.
B. Benefits
- Voting Privileges
- Eligibility for appointment to faculty for teaching and supervising in Center training programs, if maintaining professional license and insurance.
- Member listserv
- Online Membership Directory
- PEPweb subscription additional cost of $125.00
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Member Discount for Center conferences and other events
- Inclusion in the Find A Therapist Directory if licensed and insured.
- Can chair Programs and Committees if licensed and insured.
Life Fully Retired: Discretionary amount, not less than $150 annually
A. Eligibility
- This category is open to those members who are 70 years old and have obtained 10 years of continuous Full Membership in the Center.
B. Benefits:
- Voting Privileges
- Eligibility for appointment to faculty for teaching and supervising in Center training programs, if maintaining professional license and insurance.
- Member listserv
- Online Membership Directory
- PEPweb subscription available for an additional cost of $125.00
- Complimentary Study Groups
- Member Discount for Center conferences and other events
- Can chair Programs and Committees if licensed and insured.
NOTE:
Dues that are paid for one category cannot be refunded in order to change categories during the fiscal/ membership year. Category changes can only take place during the May – July billing period