Dr. Anna Ornstein: “My Mother’s Eyes”

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The Terezin Music Foundation will be premiering a short film featuring BPSI Member and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Anna Ornstein, in conversation with Terezin Music Foundation executive director Mark Ludwig. “On this date—which is also her 96th birthday—Anna talks about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary, the murder of most of her family, her years in Auschwitz with her mother, and her life after liberation. She reads from her memoir, “My...

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Rainbow Dance – AUDIO

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Dicki Johnson Macy, Director of the Boston Children’s Foundation and creator of Rainbow Dance, begins a series of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast episodes on Kids and Dance by telling a fascinating story of Rainbow Dance, an activity of movement and music that captures the imagination of children and their caregivers while also bringing calm and comfort. Listen on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a...

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Nancy Chodorow – Thoughts for the Times on Women and Men – AUDIO

Posted in History, Library Corner, Social Awareness

In the new IPA’s Talk on Psychoanalysis podcast, recorded in honor of the International Women’s History Month, BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, draws on her writings on individualizing gender and sexuality, masculinities, her research on early women psychoanalysts, and Freud’s social writings, such as Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a set of twin essays written six months after the outbreak of World War I. Click on the...

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Games for Early Child Development – AUDIO

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In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Katie Clark, Arts Educator and Program Director of the Cambridge-Ellis School talks about games for preschool children that support their cognitive and social and emotional development while they are having fun. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and...

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Kids and Games 1 – AUDIO

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Monty Stambler, MD, BPSI Member, Child Psychoanalyst, and Co-founder with his wife of a children’s game company, Gamewright, introduces Alex Harrison’s new series of podcasts “Kids and Games” with a discussion about how children’s games support their psychosocial development. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in...

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