Fred Busch – How Does Analysis Cure? Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book Building upon fifty years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods of working that can bring this about? This book investigates the analytic relationship as a process of giving patients the freedom to think the unthinkable (to build representations) and change repeated patterns of action into the possibility of reflection. This entails careful examination...
read moreTry Something New: Psychoanalytic Podcasts
Whether you’re looking for something new to listen to on your commute or hoping to hear from analysts accross the country, psychoanalytic podcasts are a great way to stay connected to contemporary voices and topics in the field. Recommendations from BPSI member Aaron Kook, LMHC Discussions on Psychoanalysis Every month we try to offer a good enough, candid and open discussion on different aspects of psychoanalysis. Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcast A treasure trove of ideas in psychoanalysis. History, theory, and...
read moreRodrigo Barahona – Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost
Preorders can be made here. Use code BION25 for 25% off! About the Book In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work. The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ability to find words to represent it—the basic psychoanalytic task—is enhanced when the distinction between two basic types of transformations in hallucinosis can be borne in...
read moreAndrea Celenza – Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction
Book purchases can be made here. Use code AFLY03 for 20% off! About the Book Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process. Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, Andrea Celenza highlights the sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and a tendency to desexualise psychoanalytic theorizing, which she posits is a result of the inherent threat erotic transferences can pose to the analyst. By providing a...
read moreSteven H. Cooper and Judy L. Kantrowitz(Eds) – Anton O. Kris: Selected Papers
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book The work of Tony Kris is a rare treasure for practicing psychoanalysts: He was famous for making grand technical terms work for practicing analysts in their office. What is the actual experience of a patient who is wrestling with a “conflict?” Kris reaches into that most basic term and finds that it may refer to two quite different kinds of quandary, each with its own set of choices. He describes the particular kind of pain that patients fear. (Think how overlooking what’s at stake in one of...
read moreFred Busch: The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
Book purchases can be made here. 30% Discount for IPA Members: Enter the code IPA30 at checkout About the Book The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory. International contributors explore the themes of this remarkable work from their own perspective, with novel and surprising results. There are mysteries uncovered, questions raised about the validity of Freud’s perspective, problems in psychoanalytic...
read moreJournal Articles and Chapters by BPSI Authors
If you would like to be featured on our blog, please email Librarian Nina Rabkina at library@bpsi.org to have your works added! 2022-2023 Andrea Celenza, PhD Celenza, A. (2022). Maternal erotic transferences and the work of the abject. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(1), 9-38. Celenza, A. (2022). Stance, set, transferences: Differentiating two modes of clinical technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2), 283-305. Celenza, A. (2022).Necessary suffering, bravery of prey: Commentary on Dominant...
read more4th Lifetime Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory
Please join us in congratulating BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory. The ceremony will take place via Zoom on December 2, 2023 from 11am – 1:30pm EST. For more information and to register for the event, please click here.
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Mind in the Line of Fire
BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently co-edited the manuscript Mind in the Line of Fire: Psychoanalytic Voices to the Challenges of our Times. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book Invited by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) to participate in a worldwide short essay contest, in this book the winners, 120 authors from 34 countries, share their thoughts about the challenges and complexities of our times. They show how wars, migration, climate change, racial prejudice,...
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Memento
BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently published her new manuscript Memento: A Novel in Dreams, Thoughts, and Images. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book If Fellini met Kafka, the comical with the dark side of the absurd . . .Sine, a professor of creative writing, accompanies Sam, a neuroscientist, on a conference trip to a Hotel Castle. Sam wants to present a new device, the monitor. Sine wants to recover from the months of tending to her mother who just passed away. When they arrive...
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