His contributions to Psychoanalysis and the BPSI Community. A video of the 2019 S. Joseph Nemetz Memorial Lecture “A Tribute to Tony Kris: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor and Analyst” recorded at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on October 5, 2019. For more than fifty years Tony Kris has been a central figure at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and in International Psychoanalysis. He has made major...

Working with Immigrant Families with Young Children – Promoting Resiliency in the Face of Trauma, Loss, and Fear with Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, MS Ed, CEIS, Ivys Fernandez-Pastrana, JD, and Kara Hurvitz, JD, MSW. The Early Childhood Conference, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), recorded on May 18, 2019. In English, with Spanish sub-titles.  The program is aimed at early childhood educators and clinicians who work with...

The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2013, Alexandra Harrison, MD, talks about her work with caregivers in orphanages worldwide to develop a model of treatment for infants and children with special needs. Her interview to Ellen Golding, PhD, was recorded in the library on December 20, 2019. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and...

The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2019, Paola Michelle Contreras, PsyD, shares how she uses psychoanalytic ideas to understand human trafficking, to treat its victims, and to teach those caregivers who provide clinical service. She is the first candidate in psychoanalytic training to receive this award. Her conversation with another candidate in psychoanalytic training, Jane Keat, PsyD, was recorded in the library on October 11, 2019....

Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens (Phoenix Publishing House, 2020) is a new book by a BPSI member, Edward R. Shapiro, MD. What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social...