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...

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.

                  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...

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...

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...

  Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD Routledge, 2012 In Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, Nancy J. Chodorow examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person’s personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life. She brings theoretical agility, wide-ranging interdisciplinarity, and clinical experience to every chapter. The book reflects on on Freud, Melanie Klein,...