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Play and the Rules That We Need … to be Broken
In this Academic Lecture, Steven Cooper explores how psychoanalysis is a form of play. With adult patients, play helps unsymbolized experience find expression through words. Winnicott’s theory of play, first described as relevant to children, marked a radical expansion of the intersubjective component of therapeutic action for all therapeutic work.
Meet the Author: John Martin-Joy
Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years.
The BPSI Ecker Fellows Program Psychoanalysis and the Creative Arts
The “Ecker Fellows Program“, this yearly initiative will involve a small cohort of distinguished early-to-mid career professionals in the performing arts, who will be offered an opportunity for sustained study of psychoanalytic principles in order to deepen and enrich their creative endeavors. This will occur within a program of study tailored to each artist’s interests. Click the banner to learn more!
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.

Calendar of Events

BPSI holds hundreds of private and public events throughout the year.

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.