Anthony D. Bram, Mary Jo Peebles American Psychological Association, 2014 Meet the Author, Anthony D. Bram, on Tue, March 17, 2015 at 7:45 pm in the BPSI Library! Psychological testing is most valuable when it makes a meaningful difference in a person s treatment. This groundbreaking book offers a person- and treatment-centered approach to psychological testing, as opposed to the more common test-centered approach. The result is a...
The Americanization of Narcissism by Elizabeth Lunbeck
Elizabeth Lunbeck Harvard University Press, February 2014 Read an interview about this book in the New Republic. Meet the Author on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 7:45pm in the BPSI Library. American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more...
15 Commonwealth by Allen J. Palmer, MD
If you are interested in obtaining a copy of The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute at 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 1952-2012, Allen Palmer’s book of beautiful photographs of BPSI’s former home, you can find it at http://www.blurb.com/books/3156498-15.
Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory
Fred Busch New York: Routledge, 2013 Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years called Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. It is based on the essential curative process basic to most psychoanalytic theories – the need for a shift...
Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement
Lewis A. Kirshner, MD New York: Routledge, 2011 D. W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men emphasized the psychic process of becoming a subject or of developing a separate self, and both believed in the possibility of a creative reworking or new beginning for the person seeking psychoanalytic...
A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
Steven H. Cooper, PhD Routledge, 2010 The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient’s inner life as expressed and experienced...