boston psychoanalytic society & institute

Annual Appeal
We are hoping for 100% participation in this year’s Annual Appeal. Your gift to BPSI supports psychoanalytic and psychotherapy education and ensures the future of our field. Click the banner to give to BPSI.
Listening to Deepening Analytic Work
Contemporary psychoanalysis offers a rich and transformative therapeutic tool to alleviate suffering. Two BPSI clinicians will present their deepening work, offering a lens into the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.
The 2020 Alan Pollack Psychotherapy Conference on the Nature of the Transference
When a young man with a pattern of self-sabotage and suspicion of authority dares the therapist to hold him accountable yet pulls for leniency (“letting him slide”), how does the therapist respond? In a patient prone to all-or-nothing thinking with conflicts over dependency and vulnerability, how does the therapist find a middle ground between punitive rigidity and excessive accommodation?
Featured Paper
"Book Review of “Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice“ edited by Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb, and Susan Klebanoff. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 224 pp.”, an article by this month's BPSI author, Jane Hanenberg, EdD. Click the banner to read an excerpt of the content.

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