In the new IPA’s Talk on Psychoanalysis podcast, recorded in honor of the International Women’s History Month, BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, draws on her writings on individualizing gender and sexuality, masculinities, her research on early women psychoanalysts, and Freud’s social writings, such as Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a set of twin essays written six months after the outbreak of World War I. Click on the...
Women Histories in Photos – Veronica Tisza
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Veronica Benedek Tisza (or Vera, as friends and colleagues called her) was a prominent child psychiatrist, training director of the psychiatry department at the Tufts Floating Hospital in Boston, and a beloved supervisor of many young child...
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis – Book Review
by Rita K. Teusch, PhD Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below also appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter. Weintrobe, S. (2021). Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. Bloomsbury Academic, 344 pp. We are extremely fortunate to have British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe in our international psychoanalytic community. Over...
Meet the Author with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau – VIDEO
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD met with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the Library, and the online audience to discuss her new book Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (IPBooks, 2020) at our Meet the Author program recorded via ZOOM on Jan 10, 2022. A couple of copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your copy for $20 (shipping cost is included in the price). Follow this link to...
Meet the Author with Fred Busch, PhD
Read MoreThe Voices of Experience: Jim Herzog and Lora Tessman – VIDEO
Jim Herzog and Lora Tessman met in the BPSI library on Oct 22, 2021 to talk about their life, work, and important contributions to psychoanalysis for our Voice of Experience series of video interviews. Jim Herzog, MD, is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, an...