Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Training Application Deadline: March 1
Please submit all training applications and related materials (letters of reference etc.) via email to admissions@bpsi.org. Application fees may be paid online. Click the banner for more information.
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.
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 1
2026-2027 Scholarship Applications for current applicants and students are due on March 1. Click the banner for more information about financial assistance for training at BPSI.
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.