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.
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 …
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. …
Freud wrote that “the initial helplessness of human beings is the primal source of all moral motives.” If caring for the newborn, a stranger on arrival in this world, is our most primal human ethic, it serves the survival of the group. The biblical command that “you shall not wrong nor oppress the stranger, for …
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 …
The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents the second film in our series "The Impact on the Psyche of Not Belonging: The Recognition and Non-Recognition of Women Artists". We will be screening the film, Kusama: Infinity, to be followed by an audience discussion led by Mary Sacco, LMHC and John Olson, MD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8mdIB1WxHI Now the top-selling …
We are pleased to present another co-sponsored event examining the intersection of race and psychotherapy. More details to come.