Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

05/23/2025

All artists are invited to submit up to six pieces of work. The BPSI Art Committee is responsible for reviewing all submissions and for selecting pieces for the exhibit. Submission guidelines are available on the form. Applications due June 1, 2025. Click the link for more information! https://conta.cc/3F5s2I0

01/26/2024

We are hiring! For job descriptions and applications, visit us at https://bpsi.org/careers/

11/10/2023

The next IPA Journal Club Series will feature BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, as she talks about her paper, Women mother daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering after forty years. Moderated by Jack Drescher, MD, this event is one you won't want to miss! For more information and to register, please use this link: https://bit.ly/47bsBc3

11/06/2023

Ellen Pinksy of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute describes how “abstinence” refers to the analyst’s behavior, a judicious holding back that protects but at the same time heats things up: abstinence is alluring, it increases the appeal and force of the transference magnet, the human being who occupies the seat.
https://tapmagazine.org/57issue2/gettingpersonal

08/27/2023

Join us on Saturday, October 21st at 10am EDT for the 2023 Beata Rank lecture, Against Transantagonism: A Metapsychology for the Flourishing of Trans Children with Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD & Lisa Price, MD.

In this presentation, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou urges psychoanalysts to let the debate about the validity of trans children take its place in the fossil record of analytic history. Encouraging us to stop

08/21/2023

Join us Thursday, September 21st at 7pm EDT for the Fall Academic Lecture, "Is This a Cultural Thing? Personality, Race, and Culture in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" with Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD; Desta Lissanu, MD; Lana Elhalabi, MD & Elisa Cheng, MD. https://conta.cc/3OOOnf7

05/10/2023

The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis is focussed on centering Asian Americans in psychoanalytic thinking, writing, and practice. All are welcome to attend their opening event: Becoming Asian American. To register for this event, please click here: https://bit.ly/3VAE0x6

05/05/2023

BPSI Member Andrea Celenza, PhD, will be giving a talk in collaboration with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis on May 6th. For more information and to register for this event, please use this link: https://bit.ly/3HIkFUO

03/22/2023

Please join us for our 2023 Early Childhood Conference with presenter Barbara Stroud, PhD. This program will emphasize the power of relationships as a developmental tool and offer helpful strategies for clinicians and early educators to address the developmental lag in this post-COVID era.
For more information and to register for this event, please use this link: http://bit.ly/3JAlCPi

02/17/2023

American Imago is accepting submissions for a special issue, Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis. Head over to this link for more information! http://bit.ly/3XDGqKO

01/30/2023

We are pleased to announce the publication of Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender, a manuscript edited by Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Member Shari Thurer, ScD, in collaboration with the BPSI Library Committee. For more information and to order a copy, use this link! http://bit.ly/3WJ6pA9

01/29/2023

Join us Saturday, February 11th for "A Special Clinical Program: Listening to Deepening Analytic Work" with Rebecca Suschitzky, LICSW; Rodrigo Barahona, PsyaD & Brigitte Zakari, PsyaD. Visit www.bpsi.org to register!

Contemporary psychoanalysis offers a rich and transformative therapeutic tool to alleviate suffering. Please join us virtually to hear a BPSI candidate present their deepening work to a senior analyst