About Us

Michigan Society for Integrative Psychoanalytic Studies is a dedicated group of interdisciplinary practitioners and theorists who align with the core values of diversity, inclusion and heterogeneity. It is a society constructed to offer coursework and training in diverse fields of study, which may be used to inform the psychoanalytic process. In addition to the traditional theoretical positions of psychoanalysis, courses in humanities, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and major spiritual perspectives are brought into focus to extend our understanding of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. For each student who attends classes at the institute, the development of a personal idiographic style informed by one's own inner direction will be encouraged. Each individual's personal style and intuition will be supported so that an allegiance to the heart and inspired psychoanalytic practice will take precedence over any orthodoxy of theory.
Ultimately, it is our goal that each individual who is touched by our society will be inspired to be in cura dell anima (in care of the soul).
Non Exhaustive List of Classes
Freud
Jung
Ego Psychology
Object Relations
Self Psychology
Relational Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Technique I
Psychoanalytic Technique II
Unconscious Communication
Theories of The Self
Creative Psychoanalytic Writing
Case Consultation I
Case Consultation II
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Mythology and Psychoanalysis
Existential-Humanistic Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Practice
Postmodern Theory and Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalytic Mystics
Contemplative Practices and Psychoanalysis
Plato and Neo-Platonism
Buddhism
Gnosticism
Kabbalah
Sufism
Personally Designed Electives