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Community Psychoanalysis: Institutes and Institutions

Panelists

Francisco J. González, MD

Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP

Loren Dent, PhD

Moderator

Christopher Landry, MD

March 3, 2026

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Eastern Time

via Zoom

Credit Hours: 1.5 credits

Abstract:

Community health institutions have long resisted psychoanalytic thinking, and the siloed psychoanalytic world similarly makes little room for the experience and knowledge of those institutions and the psychic lives of their workers and clients. A clinician who appreciates psychoanalytic insights and understanding and wants to practice in a community setting would find it nearly impossible to integrate both in their work.

A panel of three distinguished psychoanalysts, involved in community settings and contending with the issues that prevail there – poverty, homelessness, racism, immigration, their effects on health, and the economics of community mental health – will speak to what psychoanalysis and community mental health workers and institutions can learn and gain from one another for mutual their benefit. 

Our panelists will present new interventions and programs that attempt to bridge the psychoanalysis-community gulf by creatively engaging both psychoanalysts in their institutes and societies and community mental health workers in their institutions in what is becoming community psychoanalysis. The audience will be invited to imagine how they might engage in this new field in their own practice and professional lives.

Panelists:

Francisco J. González, MD, is personal & supervising analyst, supervising analyst in Community Psychoanalysis, and on faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, where he helped found and serves as Co-Director of the Community Psychoanalysis Track. He served on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He practices privately in San Francisco and Oakland and in the public domain at Instituto Familiar de la Raza in San Francisco. 

Nancy Burke, PhD, ABPP, is the co-chair of Expanded Mental Health Services of Chicago NFP, parent organization of The Kedzie Center and LoSAH Center of Hope. She is a core faculty member and past president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, vice president of the US chapter of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, and affiliated with several other mental health and arts organizations. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and supervision/consultation in Evanston, IL.

Loren Dent, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and co-director at the Greene Clinic. He sits on the board of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and is an instructor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He formerly served as team leader for Lenox Hill’s first-episode psychosis program, OnTrackNY, and is presently a consulting supervisor for the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine's HeadsUp program for early psychosis.

Moderator:

Christopher Landry, MD, is a community psychiatrist and a psychoanalytic candidate at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center. He is the Associate Medical Director at Fountain House, an intentional community supporting recovery for people with Serious Mental Illness, and co-founder of the Constellation Program, a psychoanalytically-informed treatment program for young adults who have experienced psychosis and extreme mental states.

Learning objectives:

1. Analyze the structural and institutional barriers that limit integration of psychoanalytic principles within community mental health settings, including the impact of poverty, racism, immigration stress, and public funding constraints on clinical practice.

2. Apply psychoanalytic concepts and community psychoanalytic interventions to clinical work in institutional settings by formulating at least one strategy for integrating analytic thinking into participants’ own professional environments.

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