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• Facilitating the exchange of ideas and practical clinical experience through publications an regularly scheduled national and regional meetings
• Sponsoring continuing educational programs for both forensic and general psychiatrists and other mental health and legal professionals
• Developing ethical guidelines for forensic psychiatry
• Stimulating research in forensic psychiatry and providing a forum for the presentation of the results of such research
• Developing guidelines for education and training in forensic psychiatry for both general psychiatry residents and postresidency fellows
• Providing information to the public through a speaker's bureau and published literature

The official publication of AAPL is the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

1. 42-nd Annual Meeting (October 27-31, 2011: Boston, MA)
2. 43-rd Annual Meeting (October 26-29, 2012: Montréal, Québec, Canada)
3. 44-th Annual Meeting (October 24-27, 2013: San Diego, CA)
4. 45-th Annual Meeting (October 23-26, 2014: Chicago, IL)

42-nd Annual Meeting

Event sponsored by: American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [AAPL]

October 27-31, 2011
Boston, MA

(A request: when calling about this meeting, won't you be nice and mention this World Wide Web resource?)

43-rd Annual Meeting

Sponsor: American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [AAPL]

October 26-29, 2012
Montréal, Québec, Canada

(A request: when you inquire about the above event, kindly say that you read about it from this resource.)

44-th Annual Meeting

Sponsor: American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [AAPL]

October 24-27, 2013
San Diego, CA

(As a favor: would you please be so nice as to refer to this World Wide Web resource when you inquire about the above meeting?)

45-th Annual Meeting

Event sponsored by: American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [AAPL]

October 23-26, 2014
Chicago, IL

(Please, when asking about the above event, would you be so nice as to refer to these World Wide Web pages?)

Official publication: the biannual The Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.

• Provide a meeting ground for trained and experienced practicing psychotherapists of widely differing backgrounds and orientations
• Facilitate cross discipline thinking, planning and research in psychotherapy
• Encourage and sponsor significant research into the fundamental problems of psychotherapy, and particularly to aid cooperative research projects in the field
• Encourage high standards of training, experience, and ethical practice in psychotherapy, in order to provide maximum service and protection for the public as well as maximum professional growth for the practitioner

Requirements for membership include the therapist's own psychotherapy and supervision, 100 hours of each.

Among psychotherapists prominent in the organization have been:

• Henry Guze
• Jules Barron
• Albert Ellis
• Carl Rogers
• John Warkentin
• Carl Whittaker
• Robert Harper
• Howard Halpern
• Richard Felder
• Irma Lee Shepherd
• Robert Goulding
• David Hawkins
• Jim Bugental
• Irv Polster
• Miriam Polster
• George Bach
• Rudolph Dreikurs
• O Spurgeon English
• Haim Ginott
• Rollo May
• Tom Malone
• Laura Perls
• Fritz Perls
• Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
• James Framo
• O H Mowrer
• Emily Mudd
• Sheldon Kopp
• Martin Grotjahn
• Virginia Satir
• Alma Silverthorn
• Kenneth Wapnick
• Al Mahrer