Overwhelmed, frightened or numbed by unwanted emotions or experiences, more than 16 million Americans every year seek help for emotional problems. For some individuals, it may be all they can do to go to work, care for their children or just get out of bed in the morning.

Through the Psychotherapy Research Program (PRP), the Endowment seeks both to fund empirical research on psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as educate psychoanalytic researchers in research design and methods specific to the study of psychotherapy.