PPRS is a realization of the vision of the late Stuart Hauser, M.D., who, with Linda Mayes, M.D., chaired the Task Force on Research and Science created by Lynn Moritz during her presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). Members of the Task Force included Stuart Hauser, Linda Mayes, John Clarkin, Glen Gabbard, Eric Nuetzel, Stuart Ablon, Colleen Carney, Andrew Gerber, Steve Roose, and Beth Seelig. The board’s charge to the Task Force was to strengthen the components related to science within the APsaA. The Task Force immediately identified attracting researchers at various levels of expertise and experience doing psychoanalytically and psychodynamically relevant research as the best way to strengthen research within the organization. In order to accomplish this aim, the Task Force proposed to the APsaA that a separate society be formed with close connection to the APsaA. The proposal for the PPRS was accepted by the APsaA Council during the presidency of Prudence Gourguechon (2009).
Governance. The business and affairs of the Society are managed by the Board of Directors in accordance with the purposes and limitations set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. The eleven voting directors of the Board include three directors-at-large, and eight ex officio voting directors appointed. The non-voting directors that serve on the Board are six.
The current officers of the Society are:
President and Treasurer: Linda Mayes, M.D., Yale Medical School
President-Elect: John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College
Secretary: Andrew Gerber, M.D., Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Representatives-at-Large:
Eric Nuetzel, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Steven Roose, M.D., Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Linda Goodman, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles
Robert Waldinger, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Steven Huprich, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
Program Committee:
Robert Waldinger, M.D., Chair, Harvard
Andrew J. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia
Linda Goodman, University of California Los Angeles
Patrick Luyten, Ph.D., University of Leuven, Belgium
John Porcerelli, Wayne State University
Steven Roose, M.D., Columbia
The Principal Office. The principal office of the Society will be located at the Yale Child Studies Center in New Haven, Conn. during the presidency of Dr. Linda Mayes.