Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD, a BPSI training analyst, lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and professor emerita of sociology at University of California, Berkeley, was recently interviewed by Sebastian Thrul, a psychoanalyst in training in Germany and Switzerland, about her new book The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge, 2019). The interview was recorded for, and published...

The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in May 2020, which can be found here. During this time of social isolation and being cooped up with young children in small spaces, many parents describe their struggle to find an ever-elusive balance between working from home and childcare. Parents feel guilty about doing an inadequate job for their employers and feel guilty...

By Caleb Gardner, MD. Referenced article originally published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Last fall I co-authored an article “Medicine and the Mind: The Consequences of Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis”, in which, among other things, I hoped to express some concern that American psychiatry might, in effect, be neglecting nuance and psychological complexity and losing touch with certain fundamental insights about the mind. In the...

This opinion piece by Benjamin Herbstman, MD, MHS and Holly Blatman, MD was first published on April 7, 2020 in The Boston Globe. The potential consequences of noncompliance are being outweighed by the human desire to find comfort from loneliness and feelings of helplessness by gathering in groups. Given the current wartime reality in health care facilities battling COVID-19, it can be difficult to understand why all of us are not taking...

The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in April 2020, which can be found here. We have talked about infants and young children in the time of COVID. It is important now to talk about the experience of school children and adolescents. These kids have some of the same problems we have discussed in relation to younger children, and they have some different problems. The...

The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in April 2020, which can be found here. Talking to parents the past couple of weeks has impressed upon me in full force the stress we are all under. It is clear that it is not “business as usual” on the home front. The stresses are mounting. Parents are worried about poor work performance or even losing their jobs. They are stuck...