Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

On the Uniqueness and Curative Power of Coming to Know Unconscious Phantasy: A Kleinian View on Why Only Transference Interpretation Cures
Dr. Blass challenges the classical psychoanalytic idea that the interpretation of unconscious truth is what cures. She interrogates the idea that coming to know about one’s unconscious dynamics through interpretation will lead to change.
Meet the Author: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhDD
Dr. Schmidt-Hellerau will present her new book Life Drive & Death Drive Libido & Lethe: A Clear Road Through Freud's Metapsychology Leading to Helpful Findings and New Concepts (IPBooks, 2024). The program will be moderated by Aaron Kook, LMHC, and the audience will have a chance to ask questions during the Q&A session at the end.
Annual Giving
Your gifts to BPSI’s Annual Giving make it possible to continue to offer a breadth of programs/events for our membership and the public, manage new opportunities, and respond to unanticipated challenges. Your generosity supports tuition scholarships, our commitment to anti-racism, outreach initiatives for early career clinicians, and our community education program “Explorations in Mind.” Every gift matters. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration and support.
BPSI's Commitment to Anti-Racism
Our Anti-Racism pledge is a public commitment to acknowledge the history of race and racism as a shared problem that must be addressed by psychoanalysis, as a fundamental issue of human rights, and to give sustained attention to values, priorities, and efforts to achieve meaningful change.

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism

Our Anti-Racism pledge is a public commitment to acknowledge the history of race and racism as a shared problem that must be addressed by psychoanalysis, as a fundamental issue of human rights, and to give sustained attention to values, priorities, and efforts to achieve meaningful change.

Community Psychoanalysis Concentration

The Community Psychoanalysis Concentration (CPC) is a generative, experimental project that convenes clinicians, scholars, and community leaders—from BPSI and other communities—to think and learn together about the intersection of psychoanalysis and community life/work/action.

Honoring
Fred Meisel

The Fred Meisel, MD, Fellowship Program has been created to honor Fred’s legacy, and to facilitate and develop the next generation of BPSI Child Analytic Supervisors.