Dr. Michele Baker is a graduate and psychoanalyst member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall-Winter 2017 issue of the BPSI Bulletin. My husband is a rabbi. He was raised Episcopalian and converted, so he is Jewish, but not exactly in the same way I am. He didn’t have Jewish grandparents who paid him to eat the three cardinal food groups: milk, eggs, and bananas. He didn’t go to Jewish summer camp. And he wasn’t raised to...

By: Alexandra Murray Harrison, M.D. The following piece was originally published on Alexandra Harrison’s blog entitled Supporting Child Caregivers in September 2016, which can be found here. Perry’s ideas about stress regulation are particularly important to me in my clinical work. In contrast to the negative cascade stress can cause in a sensitized child, helping a child grow his stress regulation system may initiate a healthy “cascade”...

The following piece was originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. December 2016. I am reeling from the sociopolitical earthquakes of Brexit and the U.S. election. I am also starting the second year of my candidacy and struggling with how to make sense of my role as a psychotherapist and future analyst in this new world order. In this moment when the political is colliding with the...

On Monday, December 4th, BPSI’s Andrew S. Berry will be joined by Captain Nate Emery, MS, who served 22 years in the Marine Corps, to discuss a psychoanalytic approach to treating veterans. You can register for the workshop here. Continuing education credits will be available for clinicians. by Andrew S. Berry, PhD, PsyD, ABPP   “The First Step” I have worked with combat veterans for a while, mostly Marines and Navy...

The following piece was adapted from remarks initially delivered on February 21st, 2017 following a screening of the documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. It was first printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. The “Off the Couch” series will resume Thursday, September 19th. © Ronald Wimberly, 2015   Michele Baker, MD   I was sympathetic...

Today marks exactly two months since the Women’s March on Washington, one of the largest protests the capitol and the country have ever witnessed. We asked BPSI member and Social Awareness Chair Dr. Deborah Choate for her thoughts on how our new political reality affects human relationships, both in the realm of psychoanalysis and in the “real” world.    Deborah Choate, MD   “Alternative facts.”  The Orwellian chill...