MPSI is a Community for Education and Professional Membership

MPSI is a vibrant and growing community for psychoanalysis in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.  MPSI is a nonprofit educational organization, providing a variety of training and educational opportunities in the field of psychoanalysis for members, professionals as well as the interested general public.

MPSI is comprised of two divisions – The Society, a member organization of clinicians and professionals interested in psychoanalytic principles, and The Institute, which provides psychoanalytic training.

The Society (MPS)

The Society is a constituent society of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Members of MPS are clinicians and professionals who share a common enthusiasm for furthering the understanding and application of psychoanalytic concepts to the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and, as it applies, to related professions that enrich lives across culture and society. *

The Institute (MPI)

An institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the MPI is dedicated to training future psychoanalysts. It offers an opportunity for clinicians to expand and deepen their professional skills based on psychoanalytic perspectives.

*MPSI also offers a low-fee clinic, called the Minnesota Psychotherapy Center (MPC).  More information can be found on their website www.mpsi-pc.org

Learn more about MPSI Membership

Learn more about MPSI Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP)

Lean more about MPI Psychoanalysis Training

Learn more about the Minnesota Psychotherapy Center

Leadership of MPSI

Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute, Director: Open

President of the Society:  Bridget Bender

Executive Director of MPSI:  Heidi Holste

MPSI Psychotherapy Center, Directors:  Bev Caruso and Hal Steiger

Committees that make up all of MPSI

MPS Executive Committee 

(Along with the Education Committee, makes up the MPSI Board of Directors)

President: Nick Flier

President Elect:  OPEN

Past President: Bridget Bender

Secretary: Michelle Meehan

Treasurer: OPEN

Programs and Events Committee: Kylie Gamm

PPTP Chair:  OPEN

MPI Representative: Open

MPSI Psychotherapy Center Representative: Hal Steiger

Members-at-Large:  Himanshu Agrawal and Bryan Plucar

MPS Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Committee

Rafael Cohen

Patricia Holdahl

Shawn Hofer

Victoria Kohl

Corbin Quinn

Michelle Meehan

MPS Program and Events Committee

Kylie Gamm

Erin Trapp

Emily Eng

Julian Ernst

Molly Nicholson

Bennett Jones

Psychotherapy Center Board Advisory Committee

Bev Caruso, Clinical Director

Hal Steiger, Executive Director

Kari Fletcher

Bridget Bender

Patricia Holdahl

Kate McRaith

Mary Morris

Angela Porter

MPI Education Committee

(Along with the Executive Committee, makes up the MPSI Board of Directors)

Chair: Open

Secretary: Bev Caruso

Treasurer: Kim Rorie

Progression Chair: Helen Anthony

Admissions Committee: Open

Faculty Committee: Open

Facilities Committee: Open

Curriculum Chair: Open

Candidate Representative:  Open

MPS Representative:  Nick Flier

Members at Large: Hal Steiger, Deb Boughton, Jeanne Bailey, Peter Grant, Joan Lentz

MPI Education Committee Progression Committee

Helen Anthony, Chair

Juliann Miller

Clare Buntrock

Pamela Netzel

MPI Education Committee Curriculum Committee

Valerie Penner

Jan Search

J.J. Rasimus

MPSI also offers a Colleagues Assistance Committee (CAC)  For more information, contact admin@mpsi.info.  

Deb Boughton, Chair

Bev Caruso

Sean Hearn

David Stagner

Hal Steiger

Svetlana Simovic

MPSI does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or creed,  gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.