Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

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.
A Developmentally-Sensitive Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Dissociation in Children and Adolescents
When psychoanalysis engages with emerging understandings of trauma, the dialogue enriches both fields, expanding our capacity to understand and treat the complexities of human experience.
The Primal Father on the Parental Field
"I set out to explore how we theorize fathers – notably, what I term the primal father - and how psychoanalytic theorizing helps to construct men’s engagement with children and childcare..."
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.