Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

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Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Formation1931;92 years ago (1931)
Founded at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Headquarters Newton Centre, Massachusetts, United States
Membership
> 300
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The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) is a psychoanalytic research, training, education facility that is affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. There were no psychoanalytic societies devoted to Sigmund Freud in Boston prior to his visit to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1909, though after 1909 there were individuals interested in Freud's writings, including James Jackson Putnam, L. Eugene Emerson, Isador Coriat, William Healy, and Augusta Bronner.

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The present society and institute (abbreviated BPSI) was founded by psychoanalyst Franz Alexander around 1931. [1] The BPSI is the third oldest psychoanalytic institute in the United States; the New York Psychoanalytic Institute was first in 1911, and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis was founded in 1930 (like the Boston society, also by Franz Alexander). [2] The Boston organization became a constituent Society of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1933, and was recognized as a full Society/Institute by APsaA in 1947. [3] In its early years, the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital was strongly associated with BPSI, especially through its first chief Stanley Cobb.

Associated figures

Persons who have been associated with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute include the following:

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