The Center

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center evolved from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute and is the oldest psychoanalytic training program in the southeastern United States.  It was founded in 1947 as a study group sponsored by the Washington-Baltimore Institute for Psychoanalysis.  The American Psychoanalytic Association granted it a full accreditation as an Institute in 1961.  In 2005 the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, Society, and Foundation reorganized to form the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center.  One year later, we expanded to become the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The Institute, now the Center, has played a prominent role in the development of psychoanalysis in the South, having sponsored the development of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute and the Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute.

The Center offers training in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy. It promotes community outreach, continuing education, and research to deepen general understanding of psychoanalytic thought, and thereby, enriching human experience. The Center has provided seminars to psychiatry residents at all three local medical schools and has conducted programs to enhance the professional growth of psychologists, social workers, clergy, and teachers.

Membership is not limited to mental health professionals and is available to all individuals in the community interested in psychoanalytic thought and application.

The Center faculty is composed of seventeen psychoanalysts in practice in the New Orleans area and five in Birmingham; most are also faculty members of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Tulane University, or Louisiana State University Schools of Medicine. Disclosure information is on record indicating that participating faculty members have no significant financial relationships to disclose.