A Community for Education and Professional Membership

The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (MPSI) is a vibrant and growing community for psychoanalysis in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.  MPSI is a not-for-profit educational organization, providing a variety of training and educational opportunities in the field of psychoanalysis for members, varied 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

The Society is a constituent society of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Members 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. 

People

Director, Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute: Hal Steiger

Executive Director of MPSI:  Heidi Holste

Clinical Director, MPSI Psychotherapy Center:  Bev Caruso

MPS Executive Committee

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

President: Bridget Bender

Past President: Elizabeth Bohun

Secretary: Leah Jacob

Treasurer: Josh Meendering

Programs and Events Committee: Molly Nicholson, Bennett Jones, and Josh Mendeering

PPTP Representative:  Kim Rorie

Membership Chair:  Open

Outreach Co-Chairs: Juliann Miller and Nick Flier

MPI Representative: Hal Steiger

MPSI Psychotherapy Center Representative: Hal Steiger

Members-at-Large:  Bennett Jones and Kaycie Dale

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Committee

Kim Rorie, Chair

Rafael Cohen

Patricia Holdahl

Tamesin Dyas

Angela Porter

Program and Events Committee

Molly Nicholson, Chair

Bennett Jones

Joshua Meendering

Outreach Committee

Juliann Miller, Chair

Nick Flier

Joshua Meendering

Karen Deane Johnson

The Institute

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.

MPI Education Committee

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

Chair: Hal Steiger

Secretary: Bev Caruso

Treasurer: open

Progression Chairs: Juliann Miller and Helen Anthony

Curriculum Chair: Elizabeth Wittenberg

Candidate Representative:  Shawn Hofer

Members at Large: Joan Lentz, Deb Boughton, Jeanne Bailey, David Stagner, Virginia McDermott, Mike Moore

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.