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The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) is an organization of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic societies, founded in 1992 to represent the interests of psychoanalysts belonging to independent component societies of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) in the United States. Membership in CIPS is open to all IPA-accredited societies in the United States, and to all members of the IPA who are not affiliated with CIPS through membership in a CIPS component society.
Annual President's Report
June, 2009 – This report contains a summary of the current status and achievements of our confederation. Because this is the culminating report of my four years in office, I will review some of the gains that we have made over these years and note some of the goals toward which we continue to strive.... Read more.

Celebrating CIPS History
New CIPS History
CIPS produces new history on the emergence of and consolidation of our community. Read more...

CIPS Leadership History
CIPS Honors Ten "Founders" and Four "Distinguished Life Members"
CIPS celebrated its history and honored its founders and distinguished members at the "Founders Dinner Dance" which opened the Sixth Biennial CIPS Clinical Conference at the Algonquin Hotel on April 17. Read more...
More CIPS History:

IPA Conference
The 46th IPA Congress
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place,
Chicago, USA,
29 July – 1 August 2009

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.
Click here to register.

Click here to book accommodation. [Please note that the Congress hotel is already full on some days of the Congress].

Click here for provisional Congress Programme

Click Here to go to the main IPA Congress site.
CIPS Clinical Conference
Save the Date - 2009 Clinical Conference

Registration for the 2009 CIPS Biennial Clinical Conference is now closed because we have reached our maximum capacity for this conference. Interested members can put their names on a waiting list should vacancies occur. To learn more about the conference, click here

To access four recommended articles on the conference theme, click here.

To add your name to the waiting list, click here.

President's Report
Annual President's Report
June, 2009 – This report contains a summary of the current status and achievements of our confederation. Because this is the culminating report of my four years in office, I will review some of the gains that we have made over these years and note some of the goals toward which we continue to strive.... Read more.

Other Reports:


CIPS Election Report

Leigh Tobias,
Ph.D., FIPA

Randi Wirth,
Ph.D., FIPA

Leigh Tobias, Ph.D. FIPA and Randi Wirth, PhD, FIPA, have been elected President-Elect and Secretary-Elect of CIPS, respectively. They will assume the offices of President and Secretary in June 2009.

CIPS Societies
CIPS has been protecting and promoting the interests of the independent North American IPA societies and their members since 1992. Read more...


Take advantage of your member benefits.
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The CIPS board has secured a year-long trial membership in "Club Quarters"
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The CIPS Book Series, entitled "The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis," will make its debut later this year. Read more...


CIPS is working to protect our endangered privacy rights. Read more...
The historic Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was enacted into law.
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CIPS is initiating a new teleconference study group on "The Supervisory Process" to begin in the fall. Read more...

Study groups on "Enactments" and "Bion" continue in the fall with openings for new members. Read more...
Read about open positions at CIPS