Library News

New books, upcoming events, archival research and ongoing projects are described in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter. The library is closed to public and visitors due to Covid-19, but we are operating remotely. Email library@bpsi.org to request online resources. Library books can be mailed to BPSI members and partners by request.

Recent video interviews with noted book authors, senior analysts, and Kravitz Award recipients are posted here. Recent publications by BPSI Authors are featured on the Recent Work and BPSI Authors blogs and publicized on BPSI’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram pages. We also maintain a new Who is Reading Us? blog featuring a compilation of reviews of books that have been recently published by our members. Check out the Library Corner of the BPSI Blog for recently posted film and book reviews.

Art in the Library

Our library is honored to present a new virtual exhibit of photographs by a renowned photographer and psychoanalyst, Jon K. Meyer, MD. This new portfolio called Inner Darkness “renders the devastation of being haunted by guilt, depression, and personal ghosts.” Dr. Meyer’s earlier exhibit In the Mind’s Eye: A Portfolio of a Human Journey was on display in our library for six months in 2019 (two of the prints have been graciously donated to the BPSI art collection). While the BPSI building remains closed during the pandemic, we are planning to showcase each of the eight images in the series, accompanied by T.S.Eliot’s quotes, on BPSI’s virtual and social media platforms. CLICK HERE to visit the virtual gallery. Follow the links to read more About the Artist and Artist’s Statement about Inner Darkness. Please note: All images in the virtual galleries are copyrighted by Jon Meyer © Contact Jon Meyer at jkmartphoto@gmail.com to purchase custom prints.

Meet the Author

Nancy Chodorow, PhD, will discuss The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge, 2019) on Tue, May 4, 2021, at 7:30-9:00 PM EST. Nancy Chodorow, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and Professor Emerita of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. She has written on gender and sexuality, feminism, the American independent tradition, comparative theory, and psychoanalysis and social science. She is the author of numerous articles and five books, including her groundbreaking publication The Reproduction of Mothering (1978, 1999), and, more recently, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality (2012). She is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD, will present her new book The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020), on Mon, Sep 27, 2021. The volume is a compilation of her previously published papers on the patient-analyst “match” and its effect on the process and outcome of psychoanalysis. Judy Leopold Kantrowitz, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of three books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996); Writing about Patients: Responsibilities, Risks, and Ramifications (2006), and Myths of Termination: What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings (2014). She is on the Editorial Board of the Psychoanaltyic Quarterly and has a private practice in Brookline, MA.