Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education Inc

The Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education (ACPEinc) is an autonomous not-for-profit accrediting agency that was established in 2001 by The Psychoanalytic Consortium to implement Standards for Psychoanalytic Education. These Standards delineate the CORE (essential) elements of psychoanalytic education. They propose a tripartite model – personal analysis, didactic instruction, supervised clinical work. They are inclusive, accommodating the full range of theories and training traditions. In 2010, and again in 2015, in consultation with its community of interest, the ACPEinc revised these Standards to reflect contemporary actuality – distance learning, analysis of child and adolescent patients, protection of candidates and their patients, etc.

The ACPEinc accredits psychoanalytic education programs. It assesses how well each psychanalytic training program implements the Standards of Psychoanalytic Education in light of its distinctive theory and training tradition. Why is this important? External accreditation of a training program provides parity with colleagues in other academic and health care disciplines. It supports common educational standards and guidelines; and it encourages conversation among diverse schools, and cooperative scientific investigation.