Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Mental Debris: On Analytic Listening
Bion hypothesized attacks on linking and the minute fragmentation of the mind as strategies for enduring the pain of encountering a reality that exceeds the psyche's capacity to bear. Under such conditions, emotional experience may become dispersed and fragmented, appearing as raw, unmetabolized, often incoherent elements commonly experienced as mental debris.
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. Click the banner to learn more!
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.
Journal Articles by BPSI Authors
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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.