Meet the 2026 APsA Symposium Series Speakers
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
Generational Transition and the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program at BPSI: A Look at Contemporary Child Analytic Work and How a Program Reinvigorated Child Training in Boston
You’re invited to join APsA on Sunday, April 12, 2026 from 12:00–2:00 PM ET for the 2026 APsA Symposium: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. At this session, moderator Dov Fogel will discuss with Frances Arnold, Ph.D., Neal S. Kass, M.D. and Lisa F. Price, M.D., the analytic work with patients presenting various forms of trauma. One case involves a school-aged child with severe aggression, while the other two concern teenagers who proved extremely difficult to engage. All three analysts will describe the extensive efforts required to connect with their patients and help them ultimately become more vital. The final speaker, Samuel C. Roth, Ph.D., will describe how BPSI leadership worked to facilitate a generational transition and restore vitality to the child program itself.
The session offers two (2) CME/CE credits, and the symposium will not be recorded. Keep reading to learn more about the moderator and speakers at this event.
Dov Fogel, M.D. trained as an Adult and Child Analyst at BPSI and is currently the Chair of the Child Analytic Program. He has also been co-chair of the Child Track of the Psychotherapy Fellowship since its inception over a decade ago. He has a private practice in Cambridge and also serves as the Chief Psychiatrist at the Human Relations Service, a community mental health agency in Wellesley, MA. It is there that he applies psychoanalytic principles in his work as a school consultant to the counselors and clinicians in several of the local elementary, middle and high schools.
Frances Arnold, Ph.D. is an adult and child psychoanalyst, a Faculty Member, and Associate Child Supervisor, and the Co-chair of the Curriculum Committee at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also a part-time Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Clinical Associate in Psychology at McLean Hospital, where she teaches and supervises in the psychology and residency training programs. Her areas of interest include gender and sexuality, infant-parent mental health, trauma, personality disorders and theories of therapeutic action. She is co-editor, with Stephanie Brody, Psy.D., of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition, and Leadership.
Neal S. Kass, M.D. is a board-certified adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Concord, Massachusetts. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE) and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). For over 30 years he has taught child psychiatry fellows at Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge Hospital, both in family therapy and in play therapy technique and practice. He has given multiple clinical presentations at the meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychoanalytic Association and at local teaching venues in the Boston area.
Lisa F. Price, M.D. is an adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. As a faculty member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) in the adult and the child and adolescent psychoanalytic training programs, she chairs the Beata Rank Lecture, directs the Child Program in Psychodynamics (PIP), and oversees the MGH/McLean PIP, the Longwood PIP, and the Psychology and Social Work Travel Award Programs. As a faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, she is the Assistant Director of the MGH School Psychiatry Program and an Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. This year, she is the recipient of the 2026 Massachusetts Psychiatric Society’s Outstanding Educator of the Year Award. In her Cambridge private practice, she sees children, adolescents, adults, and couples.
Samuel Roth, Ph.D. is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and a member of the faculty and Child Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. At BPSI, he also chairs the Child Supervisor Development Group. Sam trained in clinical psychology at Boston University and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where, until recently, he taught and supervised in the clinical psychology internship. Prior to studying child analysis at BPSI, Sam completed adult psychoanalytic training at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is in private practice in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.