Gift of Poetry – Donald Hall Materials at BPSI Archives
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. Donald Hall in the 1970s near Eagle Pond, NH. Photograph by Jane Kenyon. Reproduced with permission of the Donald Hall & Jane Kenyon Estate BPSI Candidate Member, John Martin-Joy, MD, trusted our archives with a fascinating and moving assortment of his correspondence with, and interviews of, a prolific American poet, Donald Hall...
read moreFinding Order in Meaning, Being and Becoming through Memoir: Fred Griffin’s Interview with Joan Wheelis
Fred L. Griffin, MD, is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. His comments and interview with BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Joan Wheelis, MD, about her recently published memoir originally appeared in the Winter/Spring 2021 issue of The American Psychoanalyst, which can be read here. Below is a brief excerpt of the content: There is a growing interest in memoir among the general readership, andan increasing number of psychoanalysts who are writing books about their lives that readers within and outside...
read moreBalm in Gilead – A Book Review
Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Lawrence-Lightfoot, S. (1995). Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer. Penguin Books, 368pp. Reading Balm in Gilead during the pandemic was literary comfort food. The book is fundamentally the story of a Black family, who, by dint of hard work and middle-class values, did well, and more importantly, “did good” as healers and academics. In it, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a Harvard...
read moreFound in Translation – “Don’t Leave Your Room…”
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Joseph Brodsky wrote this Russian chant fifty years ago. Some thought it mocked the absurd reality outside his Leningrad apartment, while others read it as a reproach to internal exiles popular among Soviet intellectuals. The poem is funny and bitter and brutally beautiful. Its much beloved quote “it’s not exactly France outside”...
read moreRemote Learning With Your Teenaged Child – AUDIO
In the third of 3 episodes about remote learning, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, and Eileen Berger give tips about how to help your teenager with remote learning and preparation for the future. 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 Certificate...
read moreElena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels – Book Review
Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan tetralogy is a bit like listening in on a psychoanalytic session. Her characters’ thoughts, emotions and dialogue are raw, unfiltered. Her novels trace the course of a complicated, intense, volatile relationship between two women over six decades, starting in impoverished Naples in the early nineteen fifties. Violence is a steady...
read moreFound in Translation – Review of “The Evolution of Felix Deutsch’s Psychosomatic Theory”
Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Felix Deutsch in a BPSI seminar room, 1941. Felix Deutsch Collection, BPSI Archives. For many years, the Felix Deutsch collection at BPSI included Dr. Gerrit Hohendorf’s German-language dissertation on the evolution of Felix Deutsch’s psychosomatic theory. We discovered this paper, when Dr. Rita Teusch was writing A Biographical Sketch of Felix Deutsch,...
read moreJoan Wheelis on the IPA’s Off the Couch Podcast – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Joan Wheelis, MD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s “Off the Couch” podcast in conversation with Susan Mailer. Follow the link below to listen. Episode 74: Analyst Daughters of Famous Fathers Write Memoirs: A Conversation between Susan Mailer and Joan Wheelis,...
read moreEmpathy Diaries: A Memoir
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 identity in a house filled with mysteries. She mastered the codes that governed her mother’s...
read moreRemote Learning With Elementary School Aged Children – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, discusses remote learning with elementary school aged children with an expert educator, Eileen Berger, giving helpful tips about how parents can support their children with resources on the web and by collaborating with teachers. 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...
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