Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD met with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the Library, and the online audience to discuss her new book Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (IPBooks, 2020) at our Meet the Author program recorded via ZOOM on Jan 10, 2022. A couple of copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your copy for $20 (shipping cost is included in the price). Follow this link to...

BPSI Member, Mark Schechter, MD, clears up some common misconceptions about suicide and self-harm in these recently recorded videos. Click on the players below to watch. Mark Schechter, MD is the Chair of Psychiatry at North Shore Medical Center, and a part-time Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and a member of the Boston Suicide Study Group. He teaches...

In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Nancy Snidman, Director of the Child Development Unit of the University of Massachusetts Boston, talks about the highly sensitive child in terms of temperament, revealing the large overlap of sensory processing problems and high reactive temperament. Professor Snidman also has some important tips for parents of children with high reactive temperament. Click on the player below...

Jim Herzog and Lora Tessman met in the BPSI library on Oct 22, 2021 to talk about their life, work, and important contributions to psychoanalysis for our Voice of Experience series of video interviews. Jim Herzog, MD, is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.   He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, an...

In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Katherine Schwab discusses the interesting phenomenon of children who do not speak a word at school but are chatterboxes at home. Katherine is a therapist who works with these children and has some creative ideas about how to help them come out of their shells outside of their safety zone. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and...

The recipients of the 2021 Kravitz Award, Ayelet Barkai, MD and Ruth Drasin, PhD, talk about their work co-directing the Boston chapter of the national organization A Home Within in an interview to Patricia Potter, MD, recorded in the BPSI Library on Oct 1, 2021. The mission of A Home Within is captured in the organization’s motto, “One Child, One Therapist, For as Long as It Takes.” In order to address the trauma and disruption inherent in the...