boston psychoanalytic society & institute

Trauma & the Art of Transformation: The Afterdeath of the Holocaust
This program explores the concept of the “afterdeath” in life after trauma, violence, and loss. What makes life after trauma possible? What is the role of art and literature in doing justice to the past and imaging different futures?
Playing with Reality: Potential Space and its Collapse during COVID-19
This program will consider the impact of virtual therapy on psychoanalytic work with children made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic. The move to remote work, in which sessions are conducted on screen rather than in person, profoundly affects the customary setting of analytic treatment.
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.
Featured Paper
"Psychoanalysis as a Two-Person Meditation: Free Association, Meditation, and Bion," an article by this month's BPSI author, Axel Hoffer. Click the banner to read an excerpt of the content.

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The BPSI Referral Service is closed for October and November. Please note BPSI does not provide direct clinical care, or handle urgent referrals. If you require urgent clinical attention, please contact your physician or go to your local emergency room.

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.