Community Events (non-Alliance)

Explore Psychoanalytic Training at SPSI
For decades, the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (SPSI) has provided a rigorous and supportive environment for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of the human experience. As an intellectual and professional home, SPSI has fostered generations of clinicians, educators, and scholars who continue to advance the field of psychoanalysis.

Join us for our Admissions Open House. Learn about SPSI’s training program - the Two-Year Certificate Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Explore Psychoanalytic Training at SPSI
For decades, the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (SPSI) has provided a rigorous and supportive environment for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of the human experience. As an intellectual and professional home, SPSI has fostered generations of clinicians, educators, and scholars who continue to advance the field of psychoanalysis.

Supervisory And Clinical Encounters On The Affective Edge

Presented by Roy Barsness
Discussant: Karen Weisbard

Dreaming the Passions of the Feelings for Living the Passions of Dreaming

with Franco Scabbiolo

“Sometimes a dream is just a dream,” someone once said. However, following the harvest of the first series of The Dream Webinar, Franco intends to continue exploring how living the dream life can overcome Agoraphobic and Claustrophobic terrors for some patients, breathing new life into patient, practitioner, and process. Images from dreams, “Oneiric images”, allow us to illuminate moments when we are stuck or lost in the process.

Clinical implications of Bion’s theory of Transformations in Hallucinosis: Negative and Positive Hallucinations in the Psychoanalytic Process

with Rodrigo Barahona

Saturday Dialogue: Presence, Absence and the Power of the Obstructive Object

with Katie Wilson & Barbara Sewell

Examining one client’s fight for gender affirming care as sustained through their immersion in video games, this presentation questions assumptions of psychoanalytic praxis in a course of treatment that has traversed inpatient facilities, parks, fast food restaurants, countless foster placements… oh yeah… and Zombies.

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to identify and explore seven core disciplines or competencies in relational psychoanalysis, derived from a qualitative research study. It aims to deepen participants' understanding of relationally oriented theory and clinical techniques, with a primary focus on radical openness and courageous speech, as well as disciplined spontaneity. The workshop will be valuable for assessing and reflecting on one’s own practices from a relational psychoanalytic perspective.

Working Therapeutically Across the Boundaries of Ethnic, Political, and Religious Differences with Aisha Abbasi, MD

In Person or Virtual