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.
Please join us at Judkins Park for a social get-together to celebrate the start of the 2022-23 year! Food and drink will be provided. Please RSVP so we have a good idea of how many people to expect and your dietary needs and preferences. Welcome newcomers and enjoy a great start to the new academic …
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. …
This orientation event will introduce all the new Clinical Associates and 2YCP students to SPSI, and provide program-specific information as well. This will be a hybrid event, and all new students and clinical associates are strongly encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people …
Dr. Furedy’s psychoanalytic journey began as an undergraduate psychology student trained in operant conditioning. His experience in hospital psychiatry with its crises and needed medications and his previous immersion in systems theory as a family therapist surprisingly led to his affinity for psychoanalysis. For over five decades as a psychoanalyst and psychodynamic psychiatrist, he has worked …
We hope everyone will come to look back over our history and forward into our future. Please note that a longer than usual evening time is being blocked out—a full two hours, 7:30pm to 9:30pm—as we want to give everyone the opportunity to speak and be heard. Participants will have the opportunity to consider local and …
Much is happening in our community with the DEI project, the History Project (fall 2022), the Retreat (fall 2022) and the ongoing discussion of changes augured in by the IRRC recommendations. Similarly much is happening in our larger community. One of the places to talk about your feelings is Reflective Spaces. During the academic year Reflective Spaces …
Much is happening in our community with the DEI project, the History Project (fall 2022), the Retreat (fall 2022) and the ongoing discussion of changes augured in by the IRRC recommendations. Similarly much is happening in our larger community. One of the places to talk about your feelings is Reflective Spaces. During the academic year Reflective Spaces …
In 2021, SPSI offered a course to Clinical Associates titled “Intersectionality, Social Context and the Co-Creation of Clinical Experience”, taught by us: Kathy Weissbourd and Kelly Lippman. Intersectionality addresses the ways that race, class and gender can impact social experience, including discrimination and marginalization. The class discussed psychoanalytic writing on intersectionality, and it provided the …
We invite all faculty, clinical associates, psychotherapy students, board members, and community members to attend our fall retreat. Much has changed in our world, in our field, and at SPSI since our last retreat in 2019. Please join us for this retreat where we will consider where we have been as an institute, where we …