MN Psychoanalytic Society and Institute upcoming events

2026-2027 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Open House (May 17, 2026)

Sun, 17 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT

MPSI 2026 End of Year Celebration (May 21, 2026)

Thu, 21 May 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Join Us for the 2026 End-of-Year Celebration!

You're invited to the MPSI End-of-Year Celebration on Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM, generously hosted by Rah Bridwell in South Minneapolis' Longfellow neighborhood.

Enjoy light refreshments, drinks, and the chance to connect with current and past classmates, colleagues, and friends from across the MPSI community.

A short program will begin around 6:30 PM.

Stay tuned for more details and we look forward to celebrating with you!

Date: May 21, 2026

Time: 5:30 - 8:30 PM

Location: South Minneapolis; address provided prior to event.

Costs: Members and Non-Members $20. Current PTPP Students, Psychotherapy Center Fellows, and Institute Candidates are Free

Space is limited

Donate to MPSI Today!

As we celebrate this year’s accomplishments and the community that made them possible, we invite you to help sustain the work at the heart of MPSI.

Learning and teaching remain central to a thriving analytic community, particularly as fewer institutions offer in‑house access to psychoanalytic education.

Together, our community thrives with everyone's support. Your generous donation will ensure that MPSI sustains a space with opportunities to nurture curiosity, share knowledge, and create meaningful training for students, fellows, candidates and clinicians.

We invite you to consider making a contribution in support of MPSI’s psychoanalytic education programs:

Suggested Donation Levels

$60 – Sustainers subsidize attendance for two students, fellows, or candidates
$100 – Supporters contribute toward MPSI’s psychoanalytic education mission
$300+ – Donors invest in the long‑term future of psychoanalytic education at MPSI

If you wish, Sustainers, Supporters, and Donors may be recognized in our event program. Please indicate in the comment section if you would prefer recognition or anonymity.

Every contribution—at any level—helps ensure the vitality and continuity of psychoanalytic education within our community.

DONATE HERE!

Thank you for celebrating with us and for supporting the future of MPSI.

MPSI film series - Session 7, May 24. Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms (May 24, 2026)

Sun, 24 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT

MPSI presents a film series, Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms

Session 8 – Vertigo (1958)

May 24, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Theme: Desire, fantasy, repetition

Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sections II–IV – repetition compulsion and the death drive
Lacan: Seminar XI, Chapter VI (“The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”)
Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part III

WHERE:

** Location TBD **

Free to attend, donations appreciated

Light refreshments provided

No registration required

MPSI invites you to enter the world of Alfred Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” through the lens of psychoanalytic thought. Each screening will be paired with a discussion that draws on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, exploring how Hitchcock’s films stage desire, anxiety, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed. From the eerie stillness of Psycho’s Bates Motel to the spiraling obsessions of Vertigo, we will trace the ways cinematic form itself mirrors psychic structures.

This series will not merely interpret Hitchcock’s characters as “case studies,” but will also examine how his use of camera angles, editing, and narrative withholding enact the very mechanisms Freud and Lacan describe—repression, displacement, condensation, the gaze, and the symbolic order. The films become, in effect, dream-texts: visual arrangements of unconscious logic, full of gaps, slips, and strange repetitions that invite interpretation. Participants will be encouraged to connect theory to the formal language of cinema, seeing how Hitchcock’s craft anticipates and sometimes challenges psychoanalytic concepts.

By moving between film, theory, reverie, and discussion, we will cultivate a dialogue between two disciplines that have long been fascinated with each other: psychoanalysis and cinema. Each week will focus on a specific film alongside key readings, with discussion facilitated by MPSI member Genjo Sam Conway. Whether you come to deepen your understanding of Freud and Lacan, to reconsider Hitchcock’s artistry, or just watch a good movie and connect with our community, this series offers a rare opportunity to inhabit the suspense between screen and psyche.

MPSI film series - Session 8, June 14. Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms (June 14, 2026)

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMT

MPSI presents a film series, Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms

Session 8 – Vertigo (1958)

June 14, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Theme: Desire, fantasy, repetition

Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sections II–IV – repetition compulsion and the death drive
Lacan: Seminar XI, Chapter VI (“The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”)
Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part III

WHERE:

Location TBD

Free to attend, donations appreciated

Light refreshments provided

No registration required

2026 Fall Conference: Psychoanalytic Supervision featuring Nancy McWilliams (November 07, 2026)

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:30:00 GMT

SAVE THE DATE!

Further information about speakers and schedule will be included in a follow-up announcement!