BPSI member Larry Brown’s latest work, On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism,” was published on November 30th, 2022. Book orders 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...

Dicki Johnson Macy, Director of the Boston Children’s Foundation and creator of Rainbow Dance, begins a series of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast episodes on Kids and Dance by telling a fascinating story of Rainbow Dance, an activity of movement and music that captures the imagination of children and their caregivers while also bringing calm and comfort. Listen on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a...

In the new IPA’s Talk on Psychoanalysis podcast, recorded in honor of the International Women’s History Month, BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, draws on her writings on individualizing gender and sexuality, masculinities, her research on early women psychoanalysts, and Freud’s social writings, such as Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a set of twin essays written six months after the outbreak of World War I. Click on the...

In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Katie Clark, Arts Educator and Program Director of the Cambridge-Ellis School talks about games for preschool children that support their cognitive and social and emotional development while they are having fun. 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...

Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Veronica Benedek Tisza (or Vera, as friends and colleagues called her) was a prominent child psychiatrist, training director of the psychiatry department at the Tufts Floating Hospital in Boston, and a beloved supervisor of many young child...