This presentation first explores key concepts from Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of psychosis, highlighting its role as one of several ways humans navigate existential dilemmas such as sexuality and love. […]

Elevate your clinical competence by understanding the persistent impact of fused family dynamics in adult patients. This talk addresses the gap in recognizing how defenses maintain these relationships and how […]

Can the existing English translation by James Strachey of Freud’s Psychological Works be salvaged and updated, or is a completely fresh start called for? This is the question that confronted […]

This series of 6 closed meetings offers pre-licensed and licensed therapists a safe and confidential place to get help with difficult cases, discuss professional challenges, and explore new ways to […]

The claim that Strachey ‘falsely scientized’ Freud, mainly through the translation of his technical vocabulary, is the red thread that runs through all the major criticisms of the Standard Edition […]

Dr. Goldin believes that dreams return us to a state akin to that of our pre-verbal ancestors, who communicated in what Tomasello calls a "natural language" of imaginative pretense. The […]

Publication of the first-ever special *climate change* issue of BPSI's Library Newsletter, with thoughtful contributions by: --issue editor/psychoanalyst Delia Kostner --psychoanalyst Rita Teusch: a survey of BPSI trainees on climate […]

Presenter: David Mintz, MD - This presentation will review the evidence base for harmful meaning effects in psychiatry and some of the common dynamics by which the meanings of medication […]

The online application portal for the 2025-2026 Psychoanalytic Studies Program is now open! A two-year program for licensed professional clinicians and advanced scholars interested in learning about psychoanalytic approaches to […]

The online application portal for the 2025-2026 Psychoanalytic Institute Training Program is now open! Prepare to practice as an adult psychoanalyst. Child and Adolescent Training is also offered. The Psychoanalytic […]

Speaker: Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-C - The role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, is explored in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa. In […]

Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center 2025 Virtual Fall Conference The Austen Riggs Center invites you to join an interdisciplinary conference, "Rebuilding Trust in Institutions: Bridging Generational Insights.” This […]