Washington Center for Psychoanalysis Member Services

Ombudsman Committee	The Ombudsman Committee is a resource for candidates, students, members to discuss concerns in an informal, confidential way. It can direct a concern to the proper resource and assist with a formal complaint, if needed.The committee is independent.
Ethics Committee	The Ethics Committee receives written complaints alleging unethical conduct. Its procedures include ways to consider the merits of the complaint, investigating it, holding hearings if necessary, and making recommendations as to the appropriate disposition of the case. The Ethics Committee's guide is the American Psychoanalytic Association's Principles and Standards of Ethics for Psychoanalysts.
Colleague and Patient Assistance Committee	The Colleague and Patient Assistance Committee is a resource for candidates, students, members, and patients to express concerns about illness, impairment or other difficulties. Confidential discussion, evaluation, intervention or remediation can prevent concerns or difficulties evolving into ethics complaints.
Continuing Professional Education	The programs of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis provide continuing professional education credits for physicians, for psychologists and for social workers. Please see the individual program sections for details.
Scientific Meetings	Scientific Meetings and workshops on psychoanalytic topics are organized each academic year. The topics address the interests and needs of members and candidates. Please check the Event calendar on our website at www.wcpweb.org for up to date information and to register.
Newsletter	The Newsletter is an in-house e-publication. It includes discussion of issues of interest to members of the Center and has regular reports from the President and from various committee chairs. It is a forum for members to communicate with the entire membership about current topics and events related to psychoanalysis. The editor of the newsletter is responsible to the Board of Directors.
Referrals	The WCP website maintains a member directory of our psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who wish to have referrals from the membership at large or the general public. The website also contains a list of those people with time available for low-fee referrals.
Study Groups	Study Groups are composed by members with the focus of each group depending on the interests of its participants (e.g. clinical, research, theoretical etc.). Should a study group wish to offer continuing education credits, application requirements must be submitted to the Chair of the Continuing Professional Education Committee annually before the study group begins its program. See the Study Group section under Community Outreach for details.
Auditing Courses	Center members may audit a course of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, either in the Adult or Child/Adolescent program, without charge and with the consent of the Curriculum Committee and the seminar leader or instructor.
PEPWEB	Active members of the Center automatically receive a subscription to Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEPWEB). PEPWEB provides online access to all but the most recent issues of many leading psychoanalytic journals and some books, and includes the entire Standard Edition of Freud's collected works. PEPWEB also enables users to search the literature by author, topic, or key words. Members PEPWeb log-in page
Virtual Community	The WCP's website is a virtual community which has many member-only features, including discussion forums, a bulletin board for referrals and other services, a listing of press articles of interest (current affairs), a directory search, the event calendar, online registration for all events, and many more. All members have a profile page through which they can access member-only forms and documents and pay dues or program fees online. The website address is www.wcpweb.org.
NIHFCU	WCP Active, Life, and Corresponding members, and those Friends of the Center, Community, and Honorary members who are employed in the healthcare field, are elligible to join the nation’s largest credit union serving the biomedical/healthcare industry, the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union (NIHFCU).