The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) is a

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research, training, education facility that is affiliated with the

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and the

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. There were no psychoanalytic societies devoted to

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in Boston prior to his visit to

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in 1909, though after 1909 there were individuals interested in Freud's writings, including

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, William Healy, and Augusta Bronner. The present society and institute (abbreviated BPSI) was founded by psychoanalyst

Franz Alexander Franz Gabriel Alexander (; born Alexander Ferenc Gábor, ; 22 January 1891 – 8 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. ...

around 1931. The BPSI is the third oldest psychoanalytic institute in the United States; the

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was first in 1911, and the

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was founded in 1930 (like the Boston society, also by Franz Alexander). 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. In its early years, the Department of Psychiatry at the

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was strongly associated with BPSI, especially through its first chief

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Associated figures

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

(22 January 1891 – 8 March 1964), Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. *

Edward Bibring Edward Bibring (20 April 1894, Stanislau, Austria-Hungary – 11 January 1959, Boston) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Czernowitz until World War I. After his military service, h ...

Grete L. Bibring Grete Bibring ( Margarethe Lehner; 1899–1977) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst who became the first female full professor at Harvard Medical School in 1961. Life Vienna Grete Bibring was born as Margarethe Lehner on January 11, 1899, i ...

Philip Holzman Philip Holzman (1922–2004) was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Harvard University and one of the world’s preeminent scientists in schizophrenia research. His landmark studies of oculomotor function documented t ...

Felix Deutsch Helene Deutsch (; ; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, wher ...

Helene Deutsch Helene Deutsch (; ; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained ...

Erich Lindemann Erich Lindemann (born 2 May 1900 in Witten, Germany) was a German-American writer and psychiatrist, specializing in bereavement. He worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as the Chief of Psychiatry and is noted for his extensive stu ...

Arnold Modell Arnold Howard Modell (December 7, 1924 – January 4, 2022) was an American clinical professor of social psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and a supervising analyst, supervising and training analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and ...

*Beata Rank-Minze

ref>"Rank-Minzer (Munzer), Beata (1886-1961)." International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Encyclopedia.com. 6 Sep. 2019 *

Hanns Sachs Hanns Sachs (; 10 January 1881, in Vienna – 10 January 1947, in Boston) was one of the earliest psychoanalysts, and a close personal friend of Sigmund Freud. He became a member of Freud's Secret Committee of six in 1912, Freud describing him as ...

Elvin Semrad Elvin Semrad (August 10, 1909 – July 1, 1976) was a prominent American psychoanalytic psychiatrist. He was noted for his ability to establish a rapport with deeply troubled individuals. He was one of the most influential teachers of psychotherap ...

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