In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD talks with Dr. Shawn Yehudian about understanding and supporting your child with ADHD. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the...

BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst Judy Kantrowitz, PhD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to share her thoughts about termination with the program host, Harvey Schwartz, MD. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 83: Thoughts about Termination with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD Photograph by Allen Palmer, MD Judy Leopold Kantrowitz, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at...

Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. McCullers, C. (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Among the torturous obligations of my American adolescence was the reading of Carson McCuller’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, about four losers in a godforsaken town in 1930s Georgia. Rereading it now...

In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD talks with Nancy Rappaport about ways of living with and coping with the stresses of COVID in schools, and at home with family and friends. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical...

Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Anna Freud and Vilma Kovács at the IPA Congress in Paris, 1938. Bibring Photograph Collection, BPSI Archives Anna Borgos, Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, requested BPSI...

In 2011, Knuth Müller, a psychologist from Germany, contacted BPSI Archives for his research on the collaboration of psychoanalysts with the US-intelligence community in 1940-1975. Mr. Müller held a brief correspondence with our Director of Archive, Sanford Gifford, MD, and requested biographies of Walter Langer and Samuel Guttmann for his dissertation. His English language report was published as a chapter Psychoanalysis and American...