Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis We represent a wide range of thinking, from We train graduate clinicians in all the mental health fields as well as to academic scholars.

The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) is a comparative psychoanalytic training institute in which multiple psychoanalytic perspectives are brought together and taught in open, continuing dialogue. The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) was founded in 1987 to provide high quality training through a comparative approach to psychoanalysis. MIP recognizes psychoanalysis as a field that has and continues to change. We strive to establish a spirit of questioning and inquiry in our curriculum and various programs. Committed to the alleviation of human suffering, MIP seeks to expand the application of psychoanalysis to an ever widening, more diverse range of individuals and cultural settings. The curriculum is designed to impart a solid knowledge of the major psychoanalytic approaches while encouraging, open dialogue, multiple points of view and the continual exploration of the definition of psychoanalysis and the relationship between psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy. As an independent institution we differ from traditional psychoanalytic institutes as we do not have a training analyst system that would designate a limited group of training and supervising analysts. This more open system provides our candidates with a wider freedom of choice in selecting their supervisors and analysts. It also broadens opportunities for our faculty to be chosen and to serve as supervisors and personal analysts. To further expand the range of our thinking and clinical training, one of the three control (supervised training) cases is designed to be a “non-traditional case.” Broadly defined as focusing on work with patients who seem clinically ready for analysis but may not readily fit the traditional criteria for analytic treatment (in terms of culture, age, diagnosis or other criteria). Our goal is to provide a chance for the close examination of a wide range of clinical experiences that will challenge and expand our conception of analysis and the populations of patients who may benefit from a psychoanalytic treatment. MIP is committed to a process of understanding racial bias and inequality in our institution. We are committed to understanding what may be barriers at MIP to becoming a more racially and culturally diverse program in which we make strides towards becoming a welcoming community to people with diverse backgrounds.

We’re happy to share our Psychoanalytic Dimensions Winter catalog. These courses, which are generally six or more hours ...
11/13/2025

We’re happy to share our Psychoanalytic Dimensions Winter catalog. These courses, which are generally six or more hours each, provide ongoing education to analytic graduates, candidates, fellows, and mental health professionals seeking a forum for analytic thinking in the MIP community and beyond. All courses offer a deeper immersion into psychoanalytic theory and practice, the latest contemporary ideas, and courses that integrate psychoanalytic thinking with other disciplines or modalities. Register now on our website – classes fill quickly.

For those who love the texture of ideas, join Richard Frankel for an intimate, three-session close reading of Jean Lapla...
11/11/2025

For those who love the texture of ideas, join Richard Frankel for an intimate, three-session close reading of Jean Laplanche’s New Foundations for Psychoanalysis. This rare in-person seminar invites participants to think, read, and reflect together as they explore Laplanche’s reinterpretation of Freud and the meaning of theory as lived experience. This Psychoanalytic Dimensions Winter Course is open to MIP Candidates and Graduates and will meet for three Saturdays, January 24, 31, and February 7, 2026, at the MIP office in Brookline. Register on the MIP website.

The analyst’s listening explores three modes of attention: listening for, listening to, and listening with. We’ll consid...
10/23/2025

The analyst’s listening explores three modes of attention: listening for, listening to, and listening with. We’ll consider how visual-style listening emphasizes “seeing” meanings, and how listening with invites an aural stance that abides in not-knowing rather than seeking to symbolize content. Saturday, Dec 6, 9:30–12:30 pm ET on Zoom. 2.5 CEU/CME/CE. Speaker: Bruce Reis, Ph.D., FIPA, BCPsa. Discussant: Robert Riethmiller, Ph.D. Moderator: Noha Sadek, M.D.

Freud’s 1915 handwritten essay “A Phylogenetic Fantasy” offers a bold, speculative look at the roots of human anxiety, s...
10/10/2025

Freud’s 1915 handwritten essay “A Phylogenetic Fantasy” offers a bold, speculative look at the roots of human anxiety, shifting from the individual psyche to the shared life of the species.

In this program, Dr. Michelle Stephens explores the “unthought other,” expanding Freud’s vision to consider how collective trauma, race, and the real shape our understanding of self and other.

Together, we’ll examine what it means to think psychoanalytically at the level of the species and how those insights can deepen our clinical work and understanding of racialized experience.

2.5 CE/CME/CE available.
Link in bio to register.

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