The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is a facility for psychoanalytic

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...

 research, training, and education located on 2420 Sutter St. in San Francisco, California. The society was founded in 1942 as California Psychoanalytic Society, and later split into the San Francisco and Los Angeles societies. A number of internationally known analysts, such as, Otto Fenichel

Otto Fenichel

Otto Fenichel was a psychoanalyst of the so-called "second generation".Otto Fenichel started studying medicine in 1915 in Vienna. Already as a very young man, when still in school, he was attracted by the circle of psychoanalysts around Freud...

, Robert S. Wallerstein

Robert S. Wallerstein

Robert S. Wallerstein is a prominent American psychoanalyst. He has headed the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation and has been president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.-Writings :...

, and Ralph Greenson

Ralph Greenson

Dr. Ralph Greenson was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. While working with Mrs Eunice Murray, Greenson is famous for being Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist. and the basis for Leo Rosten's 1963 novel, Captain Newman, M.D...

. Both Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T...

 and J. Robert Oppenheimer were associated with the institute as lay members.