Psychology & Psychoanalysis

Ricardo Ainslie has a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Psychoanalytic Associations

• Adjunct Faculty, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute 1994-present
• American Psychological Association, Division Memberships:
  • 39 – Psychoanalysis
  • Member, Section I Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Practitioners
  • Section IX Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility
  • 17 – Counseling Psychology
• Association for Psychoanalysis Culture and Society
• Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (founding member and past president)
• Austin-San Antonio Psychoanalytic Society

Honors

• Outstanding Contribution to Science Award Texas Psychological Association November 2002
• Recipient (with Sarah Wilson & DJ Stout) of Digital News Award for Best Project (photography, text, design), for Exhibit book: “The Road to Redemption: Jasper, Texas, The healing of a Community Crisis” May 2003
• Recipient Edith Sabshin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association January 2004
• Runner-Up Robert W. Hamilton Book Award for “Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas” March 2005
• Fellow, American Board of Professional Psychology 2005
• Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters Spring 2006
• Recipient Science Award, American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis Spring 2009
• Selected, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Spring 2010
• Selected, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2010-2011

Psychoanalytic Editorships and Journal Review

• Member Editorial Board, Psychoanalytic Psychology 1998-present
• Member Editorial Board, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2002 – present
• Ad Hoc Editorial Consultant, International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2004-present

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