Our member, Fred Busch, PhD, appeared in the recent episode of the IPA podcast to talk about his new paper “Self-Criticism as a Lifeline”. The program aired on June 17, 2020. Click on the player above to listen or follow this link to discover this and other conversations in the IPA “Talks on Psychoanalysis” series. Fred Busch, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute....

Janet English, PhD, is a BPSI Psychoanalyst Member. Her below remarks originally appeared as the introduction to the Spring-Summer 2019 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. We decided Mother Earth was weeping. Weeping for herself. What other explanation could there be for the reliably monotonous weekly downpour, uncannily synchronized with our Tuesday evening class this past fall on global warming? “Mourning in America:...

Joan Wheelis, MD, discussed her new memoir “The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten” (W.W. Norton, 2019) with Steven Ablon, MD, and Andrea Celenza, PhD, and a live audience via a Webinar Meet the Author held on Tue, Jun 2, at 7:30-9pm EST. The program was organized and recorded by the library of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Click here to watch other interviews in our Meet the Author, The Voice of Experience, and...

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...