by Anton O. Kris, M.D. May 28th, 2008 Remarks on the History of BPSI for the Celebration of the 75th Anniversary Howard asked me to say a few words about the history of our Society-Institute in celebration of our 75th Anniversary. A whole afternoon was devoted to this topic in 1958, at the 25th anniversary, recorded in Ives Hendrick’s book: The Birth of An Institute. So you won’t expect me to do justice to the topic in the very few minutes we...

Lewis A. Kirshner, MD New York: Routledge, 2011 D. W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men emphasized the psychic process of becoming a subject or of developing a separate self, and both believed in the possibility of a creative reworking or new beginning for the person seeking psychoanalytic...

Steven H. Cooper, PhD Routledge, 2010 The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient’s inner life as expressed and experienced...

  Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD Routledge, 2012 In Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, Nancy J. Chodorow examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person’s personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life. She brings theoretical agility, wide-ranging interdisciplinarity, and clinical experience to every chapter. The book reflects on on Freud, Melanie Klein,...