Below are the remarks from the January 16, 2018 “Off the Couch” viewing of Phantom Thread with Randall Paulsen, MD, Psychoanalyst Member of BPSI.  “Off the Couch” is part of a decades long collaboration between The Coolidge Cinema and BPSI. Phantom Thread is set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London. Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing...

By: Alexandra Murray Harrison, M.D. The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in September 2016, which can be found here. Perry’s ideas about stress regulation are particularly important to me in my clinical work. In contrast to the negative cascade stress can cause in a sensitized child, helping a child grow his stress regulation system may initiate a healthy “cascade”...

The following piece was originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. December 2016. I am reeling from the sociopolitical earthquakes of Brexit and the U.S. election. I am also starting the second year of my candidacy and struggling with how to make sense of my role as a psychotherapist and future analyst in this new world order. In this moment when the political is colliding with the...

In our new webcast series “The Voice of Experience”, Dan Jacobs interviews Arnold Modell about his life and contributions to psychoanalysis. Arnold Modell, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Clinical Professor of Social Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of five important books: Object Love and Reality: An Introduction to a Psychoanalytic Theory of...

On Monday, December 4th, BPSI’s Andrew S. Berry will be joined by Captain Nate Emery, MS, who served 22 years in the Marine Corps, to discuss a psychoanalytic approach to treating veterans. You can register for the workshop here. Continuing education credits will be available for clinicians. by Andrew S. Berry, PhD, PsyD, ABPP   “The First Step” I have worked with combat veterans for a while, mostly Marines and Navy...

My Psychoanalytic Journey Through Musical Theater Cary Friedman, MD The following piece was originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. When I was four years old, I am told, I performed the song “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady for family and friends with a perfect cockney accent. As I grew older, however, and shyness set in (or neurotic conflicts emerged),...