My Candidacy for President-Elect of APsaA

I am very pleased that our new election List is up and running. The list will give more of our members the opportunity to hear from our candidates for office and to interact with them. As a candidate for President-Elect I plan to use this platform to introduce myself to many of you and to start an ongoing conversation about the issues which concern all of us. I hope that my participation in dialog on this list will help you decide for whom to vote.

First I would like to tell you about myself, my background, and some of my thoughts about what I’d like to accomplish if elected. I’ll be brief for now but I will discuss many issues in much more detail as the campaign progresses. I would direct all our members to my website where I have provided more information about myself, my TAP statement (“Thoughts on the Presidency”), and my openline statements concerning some of the most pressing issues in the Association. To do so please go to: http://warrenprocci.blogspot.com or www.wrprocci.org

I am a psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena, CA. I believe I have had exceptional preparation for the office of President-Elect. I have been elected nationally three times, as Councilor-at-Large once and as Treasurer twice. I have served extensively on both our Board of Directors and on our Executive Committee. I have also been a Fellow of BOPS. During my tenure as Treasurer we have balanced our budgets, funded our programs, and established a number of new programs, all without raising dues. I have brought transparency to our budgetary processes and I have always been willing to respond publicly or privately to any member who has questions about our finances.

My background includes eight years of service as a Trustee and Executive Committee member of my undergraduate alma mater, Wagner College. I have chaired the college’s Committee on Academic Affairs which has given me valuable first hand experience dealing with issues of Trustee oversight of academic functions and processes. I have also been an active participant in a major capital campaign and in the development and implementation of a strategic plan. Many of these experiences have direct applicability to my work with our Association. I wouldn’t need to learn “on the job”.

If elected I would bring a “focus for our future” approach to the office. For now, let me limit my discussion of my plans for APsaA to just two items. I will be telling you much more about my other ideas during the upcoming months in future posts. First, as President I would make it a prime objective to seek a solution to what I consider the major source of our ongoing organizational dissension, the certification/TA link. We do need to come to some resolution so that we can focus much more of our attention on the numerous other issues which confront us: members’ practices, candidate recruitment, outreach to communities, practice protection, etc. Second, I would develop processes to insure that organizational planning and decision making are pluralistic and involve all of our members and not just a limited few.

I hope you will support progressive changes in our Association. We face many challenges but I believe that APsaA has great resources and the potential to advance our field. I hope you’ll give me an opportunity to play a leadership role.

Warren R. Procci