Your Child with ADHD – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD talks with Dr. Shawn Yehudian about understanding and supporting your child with ADHD. 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 Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Post Graduate...
read moreJudy Kantrowitz on the IPA’s Off the Couch Podcast – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst Judy Kantrowitz, PhD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to share her thoughts about termination with the program host, Harvey Schwartz, MD. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 83: Thoughts about Termination with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD Photograph by Allen Palmer, MD Judy Leopold Kantrowitz, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI and an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The...
read moreThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Book Review
Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. McCullers, C. (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Among the torturous obligations of my American adolescence was the reading of Carson McCuller’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, about four losers in a godforsaken town in 1930s Georgia. Rereading it now in my geriatric years with a modicum of maturity and psychoanalytic training, I realize that John...
read moreConversations with Donald Hall
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 anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor Henry Moore; he talks about his excitement...
read moreDancing with COVID – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD talks with Nancy Rappaport about ways of living with and coping with the stresses of COVID in schools, and at home with family and friends. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Post...
read moreWomen Histories in Photos – Vilma Kovács
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Anna Freud and Vilma Kovács at the IPA Congress in Paris, 1938. Bibring Photograph Collection, BPSI Archives Anna Borgos, Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, requested BPSI archival photos of Anna Freud talking to Vilma Kovács at the 1938 IPA Congress in Paris for her book...
read moreFound in Translation – Rita Teusch’s Review of “Commissioned by the Company”
In 2011, Knuth Müller, a psychologist from Germany, contacted BPSI Archives for his research on the collaboration of psychoanalysts with the US-intelligence community in 1940-1975. Mr. Müller held a brief correspondence with our Director of Archive, Sanford Gifford, MD, and requested biographies of Walter Langer and Samuel Guttmann for his dissertation. His English language report was published as a chapter Psychoanalysis and American Intelligence since 1940: Unexpected Liaisons In Ffytche, M. and Pick, D. (2016). Psychoanalysis in the Age of...
read moreRestoring the Core of Clinical Practice – A Book Review
Randall H. Paulsen, MD, is BPSI Faculty Member. His remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Milberg, L. & Knowlton, K. (2019). Restoring the Core of Clinical Practice: What is a Balint group and how does it help? Independently published, 69 pp. Human relationships and the desire to make a difference motivate people to go into health care professions. When those motivations get swamped by the requirements of practice, the ground is laid for burnout....
read moreWomen Histories in Photos – Jenny Waelder-Hall
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Jenny Waelder-Hall. BPSI Archives Several archival researchers have recently looked into Jenny Waelder-Hall’s materials at BPSI. Klara Naszkowska, PhD, a Fulbright and Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University has requested Waelder-Hall’s interviews for her spring seminar about Jewish women émigré...
read moreAlexandra Harrison on the IPA’s Off the Couch Podcast – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast, discussing her work and the nature of altruism with the program host, Harvey Schwartz, MD. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 80: A Psychoanalyst and Magic Moments: Working with Caregivers of Traumatized Children with Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge,...
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