Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Psychoanalysis and The Project for a Scientific Psychology: Trauma, Dissociative Multiplicity, and Clinical Narratives in Dialogue with Neuroscience
Despite Freud’s privileging of fantasy as the substrate for pathogenesis and his earlier conviction that his theories would be just placeholders for later data derived from biology, the marriage of early psychoanalytic principles— hypnotic state work and talk therapy—with current neuroscientific principles has emerged as treatment mainstays of the dissociative disorders.
Meet the Author: with Steven H. Cooper, PhD and Christopher G. Lovett, PhD
Drs. Cooper and Lovett will present their new book Winnicott's Letter to Bion: Playing, Dreaming and Beyond (Routledge, 2025). The program will be moderated by Dan Jacobs, MD and the audience will have a chance to ask questions during the Q&A session at the end.
Dying to be Loved: A Kleinian Perspective on Love, Starvation, and Reparation
It is not uncommon for a patient to feel that there is something wrong in their body. However, when a patient’s fears persist and intensify over time, despite undergoing medical tests and interventions, how might a therapist think about what may be going on in the treatment?
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.