Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD, discussed her recently published book The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge, 2020) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of BPSI Library, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on May 4, 2021. Click here or on the player above to watch. You can order the book directly from Routledge. You can also order a recent tribute publication Nancy...

BPSI Psychoanalyst Member Edward Shapiro, MD, appeared on a past episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to discuss his book, Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self Reflecting Institutions, Leaders and Citizens, with the program host, Steven Rolfe. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 25: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D. Edward Shapiro, MD, is a graduate...

Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. McCullers, C. (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Among the torturous obligations of my American adolescence was the reading of Carson McCuller’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, about four losers in a godforsaken town in 1930s Georgia. Rereading it now...

Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Anna Freud and Vilma Kovács at the IPA Congress in Paris, 1938. Bibring Photograph Collection, BPSI Archives Anna Borgos, Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, requested BPSI...

In 2011, Knuth Müller, a psychologist from Germany, contacted BPSI Archives for his research on the collaboration of psychoanalysts with the US-intelligence community in 1940-1975. Mr. Müller held a brief correspondence with our Director of Archive, Sanford Gifford, MD, and requested biographies of Walter Langer and Samuel Guttmann for his dissertation. His English language report was published as a chapter Psychoanalysis and American...