Today marks exactly two months since the Women’s March on Washington, one of the largest protests the capitol and the country have ever witnessed. We asked BPSI member and Social Awareness Chair Dr. Deborah Choate for her thoughts on how our new political reality affects human relationships, both in the realm of psychoanalysis and in the “real” world.    Deborah Choate, MD   “Alternative facts.”  The...

By: Alexandra Murray Harrison, M.D. Important Note: The image in this post and in all the previous ones are not images of the children discussed in the posting. They are simply children whose photos I have collected throughout my travels.  After the election, I was moved to write a blog post to parents and other child caregivers to support them in talking to their children about the election. Many parents at the preschool where I consult were...

June 17, 2016 From:    James Walton, MD, President Re:         Violence in Orlando Five days ago we were shocked to learn of the horrifying attack and murder of so many Americans at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. We feel sadness and outrage at the terrible loss of life and great sympathy for the wounded and for the friends and families of those who were killed. In speaking of the attack on the nightclub frequented by the LGBTQ community,...

At midnight on Friday, March 25th, BPSI members Catherine Kimble and Benjamin Herbstman joined radio talk show host Bradley Jay on his show Jay Talking on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 to talk about psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and an assortment of other therapy-related topics.  The program focused on helping his listeners distinguish between psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapies.  They discussed how a...

By Alexandra Murray Harrison, Boston, USA In the context of visits to orphanages and hospitals in Central America and India, I have developed a model for mental health professionals in developed countries to volunteer their consultation services to caregivers of children in developing countries, in a long-term relationship, with episodic visits and regular skype contact. What appears in this issue of Perspectives is an excerpt from my...

By Leonard Glass, MD.  Originally published in WBUR’s Cognoscenti.   In this Aug. 20, 2011 photo, football fans fight in the stands during a preseason NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders in San Francisco. (Ben Margot/AP) I thought my mother was a quintessentially maternal woman. But at one of my college’s football games, just before the last crucial goal line play, she yelled out her wish for...