Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

The Adult Psychoanalytic Training and Psychotherapy Programs equip trainees and students with the skills necessary to treat adults by addressing core psychological and emotional difficulties, as well as symptoms. This treatment enables people to become aware of inner forces that affect life and helps them master those inner forces that are out of conscious control.

Community outreach and education are provided on an intermittent basis through various committees at SPSI including the SPSI Arts Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, the Scientific Session Committee, and the Diversity Committee. All scheduled events by these committees brings a psychoanalytic perspective to topics of interest to members of both the local mental health community as well as the general public.

The Child Psychoanalytic Training and Psychotherapy Programs equip trainees and students with the skills necessary to treat children and adolescents to work as needed with their parents. The goal of child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is to restore the progression of normal development when it has been set off-course.

The two-year psychoanalytic psychotherapy program offers a series of courses in theory, process, and development from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, as well as case conferences in which to apply this material. All course work has the goal of developing greater understanding of oneself and a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context of theories and practice. We believe these understandings increase ones capacity to actualize knowledge to practice whether in the office with clients, in ones personal life, and in the communities with which we are engaged.