We are happy to announce the publication of Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender, a manuscript edited by BPSI Member Shari Thurer, ScD, in collaboration with the Library Committee. This is the fourth publication sponsored by the Library Committee of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the first published by Phoenix. Click here to purchase a copy! About the Book:  The increase in the number of non-binary children and...

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,” is set to be released on November 30th, 2022. Preorders 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 Training and Supervising Analyst, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s On and Off the Couch podcast to talk about her novels, her theoretical writings, and her work as chair of the IPA in Culture Committee. Click on the image or follow the link below to access the podcast: Episode 104: The Eyes, The Drives, and Culture with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD is...