Recent Publications by BPSI Authors   Nancy, J. Chodorow (2015). From the Glory of Hera to the Wrath of Achilles: Narratives of Second-Wave Masculinity and Beyond. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16: 261–270. Rona Knight, PhD (2014). Free to Be You and Me: Normal Gender-Role Fluidity—Commentary on Diane Ehrensaft’s “Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children” Related Papers. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:57-70. Rita...

EROTIC REVELATIONS: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios by Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014. This book is about erotic desires and fantasies, how our sexuality expresses our inner being and defines the ways in which we engage in the psychoanalytic situation. I am using erotic life in its broadest sense – the way we desire and love or desire to be loved on all levels, including within our sexual being.  We are...

THE SOBER TRUTH: Debunking the Bad Science Behind Twelve-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry by Lance Dodes MD, Zachary Dodes. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Click here to listen to Lance Dodes’s  interview about The Sober Truth on Radio Boston. Check out reviews in the Lancet and the Atlantic.  An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America. AA...

Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology. British Film Institute, 2014 Richard Roud (author), film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British...

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...

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...