As we close out our second full year as a new and first-of-its-kind psychoanalytic institute in New York State, we would like to share with you a glimpse of how our Institute is doing. We were formed as an institute on the border, one that brings together different analytic traditions, where analysts-in-formation can come any background in a commitment to lay analysis, where we are situated in New York City but with a global outlook and faculty, and where accessibility of psychoanalytic thinking and treatment to those historically left out of our profession is a priority.

Our highlights:

• Pulsion has 60 candidates now, across four cohorts, in the 4-year LP Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis, consisting of candidates with rich and diverse backgrounds across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and clinical disciplines

• Hosting 21 events, from book talks of renowned and burgeoning authors, to case presentations featuring our candidates, to our annual symposia and clinical days bringing together clinicians and thinkers to address the urgent topic of “Free Association: Free Speech?”

• Inaugurated a monthly “Works in Progress” event series for candidates, faculty, and supervisors to present current and ongoing work

• Offering 3 continuing education seminar series open to the public and community of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists

• Pulsion has moved into its own space in the heart of New York City, with fully equipped hybrid classrooms to enable the international teaching and seminars that is at the heart of Pulsion’s mission

• The Rose Hill Psychoanalytic Clinic for Pulsion completed its first year as the clinical site for candidates’ clinical training, offering reduced fee psychoanalysis to adults in New York City and enabling 15 candidates to begin their clinical training with patients

• Expansion of the clinical space to downtown Brooklyn is underway to broaden our reach to an even larger community, and enable candidates to expand their clinical training across the city

• Expanded our Board level committees to include candidate representatives from the self-formed candidate organization

Much of the work as a new Institute is due to the tireless efforts of many: our teaching and supervising faculty, who have donated their experience, perspective, supervision time, often pro bono, to support our candidates in their formation; our volunteer Board of Trustees for their dedication to Pulsion’s mission as an Institute always at the border; and our candidates, who bring their enthusiasm for a thinking space that allows for dialogue, controversy, and independence in their formation and have put together events, reading groups, and speaker series. Our community is vibrant and we look forward to continuing our work in 2026.