The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2021), a new book by BPSI Affiliate Scholar Member, Sherry Turkle, PhD, ties together her personal story with her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. In this vivid and poignant narrative, Turkle ties together her coming-of-age and her pathbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in postwar Brooklyn, Turkle searched for clues to her...

In a recent episode of the IPA’s “Talks on Psychoanalysis”, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst Fred Busch, PhD discusses a first-of-kind book he recently edited, Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession. With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect...

Remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. “…als käm ich heim zu Vater und Schwester”. Lou Andreas-Salomé Anna Freud, Briefwechsel 1919-1937. Band I (Wallstein Verlag, 2001) In the course of her research of Marie Bonaparte’s and Lou Andreas-Salome’s biographies for a Freud Museum event, BPSI archival researcher, Susan Quinn, suggested we add the...

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, discusses her new novel Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (IPBooks, 2020) with Philip Lance, PhD, a Psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. The interview was recently recorded for, and published by, the New Books in Psychoanalysis (NBiP) webcast series. Click on the player below to listen. Members can borrow this and other books by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau from the...

Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Emily A. Kuriloff (2014). Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition. Routledge, 177pp. Emily Kuriloff, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, illuminates the...

Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Sabina Spielrein in the 1930s. Photograph from the web site of International Association for Spielrein Studies Klara Naszkowska, PhD, a Fulbright and Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University has recently contacted the...