The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute was founded in 1948. SPSI trains mental health clinicians to provide psychoanalytic treatment and trains researchers in the application of psychoanalytic theory to various social settings.
iCAPP students and those currently on the iCAPP committee are eligible to sign up for this group. If this group is full, please contact Kelly Shanks Lippman at kelly.shanks@comcast.net to be put on the waiting list for this group. Sarah can also answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your participation!
Current and Emeritus Faculty are eligible to sign up for this group. If this group is full and you are unable to do one of the other faculty groups, please contact Kelly Shanks Lippman at kelly.shanks@comcast.net to be put on the waiting list for this group. Sarah can also answer any questions you may have. Thank you …
Current SPSI Board members are eligible to sign up for this group. Please contact Kelly Shanks Lippman at kelly.shanks@comcast.net if you have  any questions. Thank you for your participation!
Since June of 2020, SPSI has held regular Town Halls focused on racism. We have used this space to reflect together about how racism has affected us inside and outside of SPSI. We have wondered together about what we disavow, dissociate and avoid that disrupts our efforts to be a truly inclusive, equitable multiracial community. …
Dear SPSI Community, Our Institute has been through tremendous change over the past 6 years or so. We have lost many members—especially those representing the conservative wing of analytic practice—and we are now going through a reappraisal of the role race, diversity issues in general, and our history play in our ability to work together …
NOTE: Sandra Walker, MD will be presenting the paper, as Dr. Nicholsen will, unfortunately, not be available to attend. Polls indicate that most white Americans do not support reparations to black Americans for the consequences of slavery. After outlining the case for reparations – which may be unfamiliar to many in the audience – Dr. Nicholsen investigates the …