Supporting our members, offering outstanding psychoanalytic training to mental health professionals, and educating the general public about psychoanalysis since 1999.

Graduates

The following is a list of our graduates and the title of their final paper presented to the membership as part of their graduation ceremony.

Dana Blue – In the Twilight Room: On Extended Silence and the Cultivation of Triangular Space (2010)

Margaret Bergmann-Ness Searching for the Good in Good-Enough (2023)

Sue Neell Carlson – Whose hate is it? Encountering emotional turbulence in the crosscurrents of projective identification and countertransference experience (2005)

Lynn Cunningham  – Perversion: a building block of personality (2023)

Jeffrey L Eaton – The Obstructive Object (2004)

Judy K Eekhoff – Somatic Counter-transference as Evidence of Adhesive Identification in a Severely Traumatized Woman (2002)

Caron Harrang – Negative Therapeutic Reaction: A Reexamination of Freud’s Original Concept in Light of Klein’s ‘positions’ and Bion’s notion of Catastrophic Change (2009)

Julie Hendrickson - Negative Transference in the Transformative Cycle of Reparation (2018)

David Jachim – Wanted Dead and Alive: The Negative Object (2009)

Adrian Jarreau – Intuiting the Unknown: Listening with the Unconscious Mind (2008)

Esther Karson – Nowhere to go: When Psychic Equilibrium Prevails (2010)

Becky McGuire“From Enactment to Mourning” (2024)

Maxine Nelson – Blade Runner as Metaphor: Encapsulation in Virtual Reality as a Defense Against Psychic Annihilation (2014)

Shierry Nicholsen – Reparation: An Exploration of the Concept and its Manifestations in Clinical Material (2008)

David ParnesOn Growth, a Gift, and Goodbyes: Initial Thoughts on Termination (2018)

David Rasmussen – Expanding the Notion of Validation of Interpretations (2003)

Rikki Ricard – Taking Humor Seriously: The Relationship of the Ego to the Destructive Superego (2005)

Barbara Sewell – Gathering Resolve: Preparing for the Journey as a Psychoanalyst by Understanding the Development of Countertransference as Theory and Technique (2013)

Carolyn Steinberg - The Tumultuous Birth Of Countertransference in a Candidate (2019)

For additional information or to read any of the papers listed please contact individual authors listed in the Membership Roster.



Our Mission

Our mission is to

  1. Deliver premier psychoanalytic education and training for individuals aspiring to become psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapists, with a dedicated focus on British Object Relations theory, the work of Wilfred Bion, and contemporary Post-Bionian clinical practice;
  2. Foster the ongoing professional growth and development of our analyst members, candidates, and community members through rigorous scholarship, mentorship, and collegial exchange;
  3. Advance regional, national, and international understanding of mental life by contributing original thought and research to the evolving field of psychoanalysis; and
  4. Promote emotional health, creativity, and well-being for those we serve through the ethical and compassionate practice of psychoanalysis.


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