boston psychoanalytic society & institute

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.
The Analyst’s Mortality: Risk, Possibility and Gift
In this paper, I address my personal experience of my analyst's sudden death, linking that loss to a subject the literature has long neglected: a striking fact that led me to wonder why the analyst’s mortality is so particularly avoided in our profession. The universal – “no one likes to think about death” – is only the surface.
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
"Love Is the Great Educator: Response to Richard Frank and Mel Bornstein," an article by this month's BPSI author, Tony Kris. 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.