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:  Kim Rorie

Clinical Director, MPSI Psychotherapy Center:  Bev Caruso

MPS Executive Committee

President: Bridget Bender

President Elect: Lyuba Megits

Past President: Elizabeth Bohun

Secretary: Leah Jacob

Treasurer: Josh Meendering

Programs and Events Committee Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Bohun and Molly Nicholson

Outreach Chair: Juliann Miller

Membership Chair: Karen Deane Johnson

MPI Representative: Hal Steiger

MPSI Psychotherapy Center Representative: Hal Steiger

Members-at-Large:  Bennett Jones and Kaycie Dale

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Committee

Rafael Cohen

Patricia Holdahl

Tamesin Dyas

Angela Porter

Membership Committee

Karen Deane Johnson

Program and Events Committee

Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Bohun and Molly Nicholson

Bennett Jones

Outreach Committee

Chair:  Juliann Miller

Nick Flier

Josh 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

Chair: Hal Steiger

Secretary: Bev Caruso

Treasurer: open

Progression Chairs: Juliann Miller and Helen Anthony

Curriculum Chair: Elizabeth Wittenberg

Candidate Representatives:  Shawn Hofer

Members at Large: Deb Boughton, Jeanne Bailey, Steve Clarke, 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.