On Fathers and Sons – A Book Essay
Dan Jacobs, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the BPSI Library Newsletter, which can be read here. In Daniel Mendelsohn’s beautiful memoir An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic (2017), he writes of Elpenor’s urgent request of Odysseus: Don’t go off and leave me behind, abandoned and unburied and unmourned. Elpenor is a young sailor who has died under Odysseus’s command. Paradoxically, his cry might also be Mendelsohn’s: that of a son who will be left behind by...
read moreTrauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir
Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) is a new book by a BPSI Academic Partner, Shira Birnbaum, PhD. Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative examines strategies of self-preservation of young people exposed to violence and persecution at...
read moreLectures on Technique by Melanie Klein – A Book Review
Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein. Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner. Routledge, 2017, 137pp. This precious little book consists of a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytic Society beginning in 1936. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously...
read moreHow Emotions Are Made – A Book Review
José Saporta, MD, is a Candidate Member and ATP/Fellowship Faculty of BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of the Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Lisa Feldman Barrett. How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Houghton Mifflin, 2017. This book, by a neuroscientist who studies emotion, presents a new theory of emotion that challenges and complicates the view of emotions that many of us have come to rely on. The old view, from Darwin to Tomkins, is of universal emotions, with dedicated...
read moreHow to Manage Your Out of Control Child – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, discusses ways to manage your out of control child and methods of helping your child self-regulate in a variety of common situations with an occupational therapist, Tal Baz. 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...
read moreChildren of Nazis – A Book Review
Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others – Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy, by Tania Crasnianski, translated by Molly Grogan. Arcade Publishing, 2018, 264pp. What is it like to grow up as the child of a Nazi? How does it feel to share genetic material with fathers who orchestrated the extermination of millions of...
read moreDear Candidate
In this first-of-kind book, edited by a BPSI Member, Fred Busch, PhD, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to convey to the candidate of today. With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this edited 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. Letters tackle the anxieties, ambiguities,...
read moreThe Ethical Seduction of The Analytic Situation – A Book Review
Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Chetrit-Vatine, V. (2014). The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation. The Feminine–Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other. Viviane Chetrit-Vatine is a training and supervising analyst for adults and children, a researcher in both France and Israel, a former President of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Association, and she has published in French and English journals...
read moreLucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open – A Book Review
Dan Jacobs, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI. His remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of the BPSI Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Hoban, Phoebe (2014). Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open. Boston: New Harvest, pp.174. For those who are interested in but not familiar with the life and work of Lucian Freud, Sigmund’s grandson, this primer is a good place to begin. Clear and concise, it traces Lucian’s development as an artist while providing a compelling picture of his life as a man. Born in 1922,...
read moreRBG – Inspiration for Parents – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her new podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, explains how Ruth Bader Ginsburg can be an inspiration to parents and to all of us. 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 Certificate...
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