Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan tetralogy is a bit like listening in on a psychoanalytic session. Her characters’ thoughts, emotions and dialogue are raw, unfiltered. Her novels trace the course of a complicated, intense, volatile relationship between two women over six...

Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Felix Deutsch in a BPSI seminar room, 1941. Felix Deutsch Collection, BPSI Archives. For many years, the Felix Deutsch collection at BPSI included Dr. Gerrit Hohendorf’s German-language dissertation on the evolution of Felix Deutsch’s psychosomatic theory. We...

BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Joan Wheelis, MD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s “Off the Couch” podcast in conversation with Susan Mailer. Follow the link below to listen. Episode 74: Analyst Daughters of Famous Fathers Write Memoirs: A Conversation between Susan Mailer and Joan Wheelis,...

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...