President's Message

History of Division 29, 1993–2013: Another 20 years of psychotherapy.

“…Bricklin, along with Linda Campbell and Leon VandeCreek, launched the Division 29 Initiative for the Advancement and Advocacy of Psychotherapy. Linda Campbell, President in 2004, continued this initiative by establishing the Task Force on Psychotherapy Advancement and Advocacy, commenting that “Division 29 is the natural and rightful representative of psychotherapy in APA” (Campbell, 2004, p. 2). With the presidencies of Leon VandeCreek (2005) and Abe Wolf (2006), the Division saw greater emphasis placed on our web presence and the importance of social media.…”

“…In the first 25 years of the Division (through 1992), there were only three female presidents (Canter, 1983–1984; Sobel, 1986; and McGrath, 1991). In all 46 years, there have been 11 females presidents in total (post 1992: Hannigan-Farley, 1996; Rubenstein, 1998; Willis, 2001; Bricklin, 2003; Campbell, 2004; Carter, 2007; Kaslow, 2009; Williams, 2011), less than 25% of the presidencies. To our knowledge, there has only been one person of color serving as president (as Diane Willis self-identified as American Indian in her presidential candidate statement).…”