What Can Psychosis Teach Us About Psychoanalysis? A conversation with Bret Fimiani, Psy.D.

​Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Bret Fimiani on the ethics of psychoanalytic treatment with patients who are hearing voices and/or experiencing extreme states. While the focus of this conversation is on treating psychosis, it should be edifying for clinicians working with patients from across the diagnostic spectrum as well as for anyone interested in understanding the human experience, as we find the psychotic has much to teach us.

​Dr. Bret Fimiani is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. He is also a member of the Society for Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Interventions and Research After Lacan (SPIIRAL). He works with people experiencing psychosis and extreme states in his private practice in Oakland, CA and he is on the board of directors for the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network. His recent book on psychosis is titled “Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment” (Palgrave-Macmillan 2021).