Psychiatrist and BPSI Member Dr. Robert Waldinger has been all over the news promoting his new book, The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Study of Happiness. Recently, he stopped by WGBH’s Boston Public Radio, sharing the study’s findings on the importance of interpersonal relationships for feelings of long-term happiness and fulfilment. Click here to watch the interview. About the Book What makes a life fulfilling...

The Terezin Music Foundation will be premiering a short film featuring BPSI Member and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Anna Ornstein, in conversation with Terezin Music Foundation executive director Mark Ludwig. “On this date—which is also her 96th birthday—Anna talks about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary, the murder of most of her family, her years in Auschwitz with her mother, and her life after liberation. She reads from her memoir, “My...

Click here to listen to the episode. Episode Description: We begin by recognizing the well-known analytic challenge which is to learn the basic scales and then learn to improvise – both being essential tools for creating a dependable and creative analytic space. Rafael shares with us his early familial psychoanalytic influences and his search to find his own voice. We discuss the similarities between analytic free association and musical...

BPSI member Larry Brown’s latest work, On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism,” was published on November 30th, 2022. Book orders can be made here. From Routledge: On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism” discusses key themes in Sigmund Freud’s final book, Moses and Monotheism, written between 1934 and 1939. The contributors reflect on the historical context of the time during which the book was written,...

BPSI Psychoanalyst Member Edward Shapiro, MD, appeared on a past episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to discuss his book, Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self Reflecting Institutions, Leaders and Citizens, with the program host, Steven Rolfe. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 25: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D. Edward Shapiro, MD, is a graduate...