The Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society is an interdisciplinary membership group of Bay Area psychoanalysts, clinicians, and academics meeting four times a year to study together at the intersection of psychoanalysis and culture. We are an independent, autonomous thinking group – we offer no formal psychoanalytic training. Speakers come to us as a springboard for intellectual discussion. The Berkeley Psychoanalytic Society (BPS) sponsors gatherings of people to come together to discuss and learn in an accepting, open and entirely civil environment. Though we come from disparate backgrounds, we share in common an invigorating hunger for ideas and links between them.