If you are interested in obtaining a copy of The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute at 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 1952-2012, Allen Palmer’s book of beautiful photographs of BPSI’s former home, you can find it at http://www.blurb.com/books/3156498-15.

                  Fred Busch New York: Routledge, 2013 Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years called Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. It is based on the essential curative process basic to most psychoanalytic theories – the need for a shift...

By Jonathan Kolb M.D.   Spoiler Alert:  There are surprises in this film.  Do not read what follows if you have not seen the film, and want to have the experience that it provides.   The Stories We Tell, a film by Sarah Polley, played in some Festivals and opened to good reviews in the Spring of 2013.  In a variety of formats, from black and white home movies to what seem like old color sequences, and more contemporary sequences shot...

Psychoanalysis and Academia: Present, Past, Future   By Murray Schwartz     When, in The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), Freud sketched his ideal of a “college of psychoanalysis,” he transcended a “Two Cultures” view of psychoanalytic education. By including such disciplines as history, mythology, religion, and “the science of literature,” along with sexuality and “the symptomology of psychiatry,” his vision encompassed science,...

What to Do When Your Child Is Struggling by Judy Yanof , M.D.* April 25, 2013   Seeing that their child is unhappy or struggling often leaves parents feeling not only distressed, but also helpless. As parents, we often do not know how to help our children, because children generally are not very good at telling us what is bothering them. They often do not know why they are unhappy, and they may not have the words to articulate their experience....