Fred Busch on the IPA “Talks on Psychoanalysis Podcast” – AUDIO
In a recent episode of the IPA’s “Talks on Psychoanalysis”, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst Fred Busch, PhD discusses a first-of-kind book he recently edited, Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession. With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect upon what it means to be a psychoanalytic candidate and enter the profession. Click on the player...
read moreLou Andreas-Salome and Anna Freud Correspondence – Letters of Note
Remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. “…als käm ich heim zu Vater und Schwester”. Lou Andreas-Salomé Anna Freud, Briefwechsel 1919-1937. Band I (Wallstein Verlag, 2001) In the course of her research of Marie Bonaparte’s and Lou Andreas-Salome’s biographies for a Freud Museum event, BPSI archival researcher, Susan Quinn, suggested we add the Andreas-Salome and Anna Freud correspondence to our collection: “…als käm ich heim zu Vater und...
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau’s Interview with New Books in Psychoanalysis – AUDIO
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, discusses her new novel Memory’s Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel (IPBooks, 2020) with Philip Lance, PhD, a Psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. The interview was recently recorded for, and published by, the New Books in Psychoanalysis (NBiP) webcast series. Click on the player below to listen. Members can borrow this and other books by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau from the BPSI library. Meet the Author event is scheduled for Mon, Jan 10, 2022.
read moreContemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich – A Book Review
Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Emily A. Kuriloff (2014). Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition. Routledge, 177pp. Emily Kuriloff, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, illuminates the question: What effect did the trauma of the Holocaust have on the émigré analysts’ theoretical and...
read moreRemote Learning with Preschool Children – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, discusses how to support your preschool child in remote learning with an expert educator, Eileen Berger. 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 Program at...
read morePsychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings
Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings (Routledge, 2021) is a new book, co-edited by BPSI Faculty Member, Anthony D. Bram, PhD. In this edited book, expert assessors illustrate through case examples how they apply psychoanalytic theory to different clinical settings. These settings include private practice, neuropsychological, medical, forensic, personnel, custody, school, and psychiatric-residential. Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings allows the reader to track the assessor’s work from...
read more“I, too, was once a human being. My name was Sabina Spielrein.”
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Sabina Spielrein in the 1930s. Photograph from the web site of International Association for Spielrein Studies Klara Naszkowska, PhD, a Fulbright and Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University has recently contacted the BPSI Archives to research our collection of interviews with Jewish women émigré psychoanalysts who...
read moreMeet the Author – John Martin-Joy – VIDEO
John Martin-Joy, MD, discussed his recently published book Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump with James Barron, PhD, Shari Thurer, ScD, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on Jan 11, 2021. Click here for more information or to purchase a copy of the autographed book while the supply lasts. Follow this link to watch other webinars and interviews in our Meet the Author, The Voice of Experience, and Kravitz Award video...
read moreFred Busch’s Interview with New Books in Psychoanalysis – AUDIO
Fred Busch, PhD, BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, discusses his book Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory (Routledge, 2013) with Philip Lance, PhD, a Psychoanalyst in Los Angeles. The interview was recently recorded for, and published by, the New Books in Psychoanalysis (NBiP) webcast series. Click on the player to listen.
read morePeripartum Mental Health – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, discusses women’s mental health during pregnancy and the post partum period with Drs. Marcela Almeida and Mamatha Challa. 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...
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