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...

John Martin-Joy, MD, discussed his recently published book Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump with James Barron, PhD, Shari Thurer, ScD, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on Jan 11, 2021. Click here for more information or to purchase a copy of the autographed book while the supply lasts. Follow this link to watch other webinars and...

Fred Busch, PhD, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, discusses his book Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory (Routledge, 2013) 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 to listen.

Dan Jacobs, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the BPSI Library Newsletter, which can be read here. In Daniel Mendelsohn’s beautiful memoir An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic (2017), he writes of Elpenor’s urgent request of Odysseus: Don’t go off and leave me behind, abandoned and unburied and unmourned. Elpenor is a young sailor who has died under Odysseus’s...