Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

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?
Mental Debris: On Analytic Listening
Bion hypothesized attacks on linking and the minute fragmentation of the mind as strategies for enduring the pain of encountering a reality that exceeds the psyche's capacity to bear. Under such conditions, emotional experience may become dispersed and fragmented, appearing as raw, unmetabolized, often incoherent elements commonly experienced as mental debris.
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.
Journal Articles by BPSI Authors
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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.