Remote 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...
read moreOn 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...
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