The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2014, Michael Grodin, MD, talks  about his work in an interview to James Frosch, MD, recorded on Sep 25, 2020. Dr. Grodin, BPSI Affiliate Scholar Member, is a nationally recognized expert in medical ethics and human rights. He is the Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, Professor of Bioethics and Human Rights at the...

Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Novick, J. and Novick, K. (2016) Freedom to Choose. Two Systems of Self-Regulation. International Psychoanalytic Books. 236 pp. This immensely readable book details John and Kerry Kelly Novick’s clinical psychoanalytic work over the past 50 years. Trained at the Anna Freud...

Steven Luria Ablon, MD, read poetry from his new book “Dinner in the Garden” at our Meet the Author Webinar held and recorded on Oct 6, 2020. Discussion with a live audience was moderated by Dan Jacobs, MD. Click here to watch other webinars and interviews in our Meet the Author, The Voice of Experience, and Kravitz Award video series. Follow this link to watch video recordings of select BPSI events in the past.

by Susannah Sherry and Rafael Ornstein Jeremy Ornstein, member of the Sunrise Movement, knocked on doors to help elect a new member of the Pennsylvania state legislature who opposed the construction of a new fossil fuel pipeline in the state. The article below originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2020 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. One of the hardest jobs in parenthood is shepherding a teenager into young adulthood,...

by Andrew Skoirchet, MD with Alexandra Harrison The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in September 2020, which can be found here. A. Harrison: The colleagues I rely on most in my therapeutic work with young children are teachers. I know that teachers write about teaching and what it is like to be a teacher much better than I ever could, but as an outsider, I would...

Dan Jacobs, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2020 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. In writing a novel, one invents characters who are, as in a dream, varying aspects of oneself. The challenge is to bring these characters—these different pieces of self—together in a coherent story. In this way, writing is an attempt at self-understanding and...