In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, an accomplished professional woman and the mother of a highly sensitive child describes mothering her wonderful yet challenging child and what she has learned from this experience. It’s the 1st episode in a new series on the “Highly Sensitive Child”. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston...

Four landscape paintings by BPSI Member, Lewis Kirshner, featuring different seasons, are on display in the library this fall. Read Dr. Kirshner’s artist statement below to learn about his sources of inspiration. I took up oils again to learn about portrait painting from a St Johnsbury, Vermont, artist, Ed Kadunc, who was immensely helpful for theory and practice. Later, upon relocating to Amsterdam, I continued lessons from another...

Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD discussed her recently published book The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the BPSI Library, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on Sep 27, 2021. Click here or on the player above to watch. A few copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your...

Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. When I first read journalist Janet Malcolm’s Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession in 1981, I wanted to be Janet Malcolm…notably not the psychoanalyst she profiled. This may seem odd as I later became a psychotherapist, not a journalist. But Malcolm struck me as...

Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Lydia Gibson Dawes, MD (1896-1990)BPSI Photograph Collection, BPSI Archives This portrait of BPSI Member Lydia Gibson Dawes, MD (1896-1990), donated to our archives by John Terry Maltsberger in 1990, is one our recent treasured...

In the attempt to celebrate BPSI Authors remotely, we continue featuring a compilation of reviews of, and interviews about, books that have been recently published by our members. If we have missed a review of your recent work, please share the reference with our library and we will cite it in the future issues of the library newsletter! BPSI Authors are listed alphabetically. Follow the DOI links below to download fulltext (requires a journal...