Who We Are
The Consultation Liaison Network (CLN) is a grassroots community for psychoanalytic practitioners interested in fostering psychoanalytic practice, theory and training for all, integrating a multiplicity of diverse identities, perspectives and social histories. We contain multitudes— psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic therapists, candidates/trainees, academics, researchers & others, across North America & beyond, of different races/ethnicities, genders/sexualities, age, class, disciplines, religion/spirituality & more.
Our Mission
The Consultation Liaison Network (CLN) strives to provide connection and support for psychoanalytic practitioners to explore their interests in fostering psychoanalytic practice, theory and training for all people, while holding a multiplicity of diverse perspectives and social histories.
The CLN operates interstitially, intentionally positioned between and alongside of established organizations with a dual orientation: “inward” toward psychoanalytic institutions (and our individual psyches/selves) and “outward” toward broader societal engagement.
We seek to foster material and virtual environments that provide mutual support and nurture creativity in these efforts—environments that prioritize relationships over productivity, sustainability over exhaustion, reflection alongside action, and new forms of collectivity over conventional hierarchies.