The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis is an organization focussed on centering Asian Americans in psychoanalytic thinking, writing, and practice. All are welcome to attend their opening event: Becoming Asian American on May 18 via Zoom. For more information and to register for this event, please click here.

BPSI Member Andrea Celenza, PhD, will be giving a talk in collaboration with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis on May 6th. For more information and to register for this event, please click here. “The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyt’s invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of the other...

BPSI Member Don Lipsitt, MD, published his new manuscript Insights from a Sixty-Four Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa this past April. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the 64 year period 1938-2002. Through discussion and analysis of...

Recently John Martin-Joy, MD, and his book Diagnosing From A Distance were quoted in a New York Times obituary for editor Warren Boroson. To view the article, please click here. Boroson, along with with Ralph Ginzburg, created a provocative article and survey of psychiatrists about Barry Goldwater’s mental health.   “‘I think he, with Ginzburg, was important in trying to push forward the frontiers of free speech on behalf of...

BPSI Member Fred Busch, PhD, is set to release his latest work on March 15th; Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective. Preorders of the book can be made here. About the Book In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book explores four main questions in the development of psychoanalysis:...

The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us...