Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

In this presentation, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou urges psychoanalysts to let the debate about the validity of trans children take its place in the fossil record of analytic history. Encouraging us to stop squandering our energies sparring with colleagues who see trans existence as cause for alarm, she suggests it is time to move beyond transantagonism […]

Carol Gilligan, psychologist, feminist and ethicist will discuss her new book, In a Human Voice. Forty years after the publication of In a Different Voice, considered by the Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution,” Dr. Gilligan expands her ideas regarding morality and self to introduce care ethics which she conceptualizes […]

From 1934 until 1945, Otto Fenichel and a small group of left-leaning psychoanalysts were forced to flee the rise of Nazism in Germany. As refugees, they furtively shared their ideas about the politics of institutional psychoanalysis through a series of private Rundbriefe (circulating letters, or circulars), and discussed in the exchange of letters the possibility […]

This is a concise and accessible 5-session introduction to theories of adult development, featuring literary and historical case studies. In weekly meetings we'll read Carol Gilligan, Erik Erikson, and Usha Tummala-Narra on processes of change in the context of social justice. In tandem we'll read a new graphic memoir of adolescence by a Korean-American artist-writer […]