This new book, edited by Petra Bueskens, a psychotherapist and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and published by Palgrave in 2021, revisits Nancy Chodorow’s groundbreaking and highly influential 1978 book The Reproduction of Mothering. This publication brings together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow Women Mother Daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering After...

The Analyst as Storyteller / El Analista como Narrador (IPBooks, 2021), is a recently published collection of 30 stories in their original languages, as well as in English and Spanish, edited by a BPSI Member, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD. Contributors include: Viviane Auzias (France), Fabio Castriota (Italy), Nicolás Correa (Chile), Georges Gachnochi (France), Bertha Gamarra (Columbia), Christopher Gibson (Sweden), Christa Hoffmann...

Conversations with Donald Hall (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), a new book co-edited by BPSI Candidate Member, John Martin-Joy, MD, offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928–2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving...

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2021), a new book by BPSI Affiliate Scholar Member, Sherry Turkle, PhD, ties together her personal story with her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. In this vivid and poignant narrative, Turkle ties together her coming-of-age and her pathbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in postwar Brooklyn, Turkle searched for clues to her...

Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings (Routledge, 2021) is a new book, co-edited by BPSI Faculty Member, Anthony D. Bram, PhD. In this edited book, expert assessors illustrate through case examples how they apply psychoanalytic theory to different clinical settings. These settings include private practice, neuropsychological, medical, forensic, personnel, custody, school, and psychiatric-residential. Psychoanalytic...

Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) is a new book by a BPSI Academic Partner, Shira Birnbaum, PhD. Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with...