Why Give to the EUPI?

While our educational program is housed in the Emory University Department of Psychiatry, the EUPI independently sustains its program with revenue from candidate program fees, Executive Coaching in the Goizueta Business School Leadership Program, conferences, grants, and contributions.  We rely on the generosity of private donors, foundations, and community members to fund our teaching and clinical programs.  With support from former candidates and community members, we have trained deans of universities, endowed professors, Department chairs, renowned scholars, and countless numbers of psychoanalytic psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. 

Here are a few more reasons to give...

The EUPI is comprised of 42 Adjunct Faculty Members who devote uncompensated time to the education of future psychoanalysts. They are analysts in private practice, academics, researchers, artists, lawyers, attending psychiatrists, and administrators.  72% of EUPI's graduate analysts are Certified by the American Board of Psychoanalysis.

In 2019, 30 candidates were enrolled in EUPI's educational and clinical programs.  The EUPI is training a diverse group of future psychoanalysts to meet the needs of cosmopolitan and multicultural communities.

27% of our candidates identify as people of color and 10% are from abroad.  42% of our candidates receive some form of tuition support during their training thanks to the generosity of the many donors to our Philanthropy Fund.  In the years 2014-2019, EUPI graduated 43 core, psychotherapy, and adult psychoanalysis candidates.

The EUPI has a long tradition of providing sliding scale, affordable, psychoanalytic treatment to Atlanta residents. Our internationally renowned faculty have recognized specializations in the following areas: anxiety disorders, child development, compulsivity, conversion disorders, eating disorders, dissatisfaction and depression, gender dysphoria, grief and loss, marital and family discord, personality disorders, perfectionism and success fears, racial identity and internalized oppressions, sexual dysfunction, substance dependence, trauma, treatment resistant depression and workaholism.

EUPI houses the Lucy Daniels Foundation data.  This archive contains the transcripts and data of full-length psychoanalyses. EUPI faculty have published five scientific papers using this data.  There are faculty members at Emory engaged in psychoanalytic research throughout the university, in the schools of Law, Business, Theology, Public Health, and Nursing as well as in the Medical School.

Members of EUPI have published and reviewed articles in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and other leading journals in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.  Our Faculty have published books on psychoanalytic topics with major presses such as Columbia, University of Chicago, Jason Aronson and Yale.

For three decades, EUPI has sponsored Movie Mania, a vital outreach program that brings psychoanalytic concepts to Atlanta residents by watching and discussing popular films.

EUPI collaborates actively with the Goizueta Business School in its Leadership Program and in the development of its new Diploma in Executive Coaching.  These initiatives take psychoanalysis out of the clinic and into the board rooms of local companies and corporations. To hear more about this, tune into IPA Off the Couch: Episode 15: Psychoanalysis in the Emory Business School-From Couch to Coach.

In 2019, the EUPI gave the first inaugural Catherine Shropshire Hardman Symposium for the Advancement of Clinical Psychoanalysis and Interdisciplinary Scholarship with a generous financial support from our aforementioned donor. This annual symposium will take up topics impacting Atlanta communities.  Future topics include: Autism, Gender and Mental Health, and the impact of technologies on how we relate to one another.

Our fundraising goals for the next decade include: establishing a named Directorship; paying honorariums to our volunteer faculty teachers; funding scholarships for BIPOC candidates enrolled in clinical programs; and creating a scholarship fund for patients seeking psychoanalysis.

If you would like to learn more about our programs and opportunities for giving, please contact Stefanie Speanburg, PhD, LCSW.