James Frosch, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. His below remarks originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2019 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. The unsophisticated waking judgement of someone who has just woken from sleep assumes that his dreams, even if they did not themselves come from another world, had at all events carried him off into another world. — Freud I...

Ilana Kurshan (2017). If All the Sees Were Ink. St. Martin’s Press, 320pp. Marcia Smith-Hutton, MSW, LICSW, BCD, is a Psychotherapist Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and a Member of BPSI’s Library Committee. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Ilana Kurshan is very comfortable with associations and metaphors; hence the title of this book....

Thursday, September 12, 2019; 6:00pm – 7:00pm Join us for a wine & cheese reception as we celebrate the 29 artists chosen for the 2019-2020 Exhibit: Images of Psychoanalysis — The Inward Gaze. Paintings, collage, photography, wall sculpture, and textiles by: Myra Abelson, Don Alden, John Baker, Nadia Daly, Nancy Diessner, Alan Fortescue, Cheri Geckler, Lynda Goldberg, Jane Barnett Grignetti, Jane Hanenberg, Gittel...

At the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) meetings in June, responding to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots which marked the beginning of the modern era of LGBTQ+ rights, APsaA President Lee Jaffe apologized for our national organization’s historic role in abetting discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community. He said: “Regrettably, much of our past understanding of homosexuality as an illness can be...