SPSI Featured Speakers

  In recent decades, a growing body of evidence has underscored the positive development of children raised by same-sex parents. These compelling findings not only challenge the traditional Oedipal theory but also lay bare its inherent heteronormative biases, compelling a thorough reevaluation of its foundational premises. Join Dr. Yifat Eitan-Persico as she shares enlightening theoretical …

Both psychoanalysis and religion address, in distinct ways, questions about “ultimate concerns”: love, desire, identity, purpose, meaning, and how our humanity develops and finds expression in relation to self, others, and what is beyond us. And yet, the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion has long been characterized by mutual criticism, misunderstanding, and/or total disregard. The …

Theorizing on the role of culture, race, gender, sexuality, and class in psychoanalytic thinking has grown and advanced with the advent of the “decolonial turn” starting in the 1990’s.  However, the clinical implications of this theorizing remain unclear aside from a general call to “address culture” and “name difference” in the transference-countertransference matrix. Similarly, while …