The Terezin Music Foundation will be premiering a short film featuring BPSI Member and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Anna Ornstein, in conversation with Terezin Music Foundation executive director Mark Ludwig. “On this date—which is also her 96th birthday—Anna talks about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary, the murder of most of her family, her years in Auschwitz with her mother, and her life after liberation. She reads from her memoir, “My...

Click here to listen to the episode. Episode Description: We begin by recognizing the well-known analytic challenge which is to learn the basic scales and then learn to improvise – both being essential tools for creating a dependable and creative analytic space. Rafael shares with us his early familial psychoanalytic influences and his search to find his own voice. We discuss the similarities between analytic free association and musical...

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...