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...

Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) is a new book by a BPSI Academic Partner, Shira Birnbaum, PhD. Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with...

Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein. Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner. Routledge, 2017, 137pp. This precious little book consists of a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytic Society beginning in 1936. They were...

José Saporta, MD, is a Candidate Member and ATP/Fellowship Faculty of BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of the Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Lisa Feldman Barrett. How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin, 2017. This book, by a neuroscientist who studies emotion, presents a new theory of emotion that challenges and complicates the view of emotions that many of us have...