Cancellation of the April 25, 2020 Skinner Lecture Fantasy, Creativity and the World We Live In: Responses to Freud’s ‘Creative Writers and Daydreaming’ In Memory of Dr. Christopher Bullock
Regretfully, due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 virus, BPSI has made the difficult decision to cancel the April 25, 2020 program, Fantasy, Creativity and the World We Live In: Responses to Freud’s ‘Creative Writers and Daydreaming’ in memory of Dr. Christopher Bullock. We will be in contact regarding further plans.
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Reworking Gender: Trans, Nonbinary and Gender-Expansive Experiences in Theory and Practice
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The Report: A Depiction of Trauma and Othering after September 11, 2001
Below are the remarks from the November 19, 2019 “Off the Couch” viewing of The Report with Benjamin Herbstman, MD, MHS, Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. “Off the Couch” is part of a decades-long collaboration between The Coolidge Cinema and BPSI. The Report is a riveting thriller based on actual events. Idealistic staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) is tasked by his boss, Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) to lead an investigation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was created in the...
read moreThe Nickel Boys: A Novel
Ellen Goldberg, PhD, is a Psychotherapist Member of BPSI. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Whitehead, Colson (2019). Doubleday, 224p. In a new heart-breaking story, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead, provides a window into a kind of abuse black teenagers faced in the 1960’s. The Nickel Academy is based on Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a 100-year old reform school in Florida, which closed in 2011 after allegations of abuse and...
read moreJoker: When Hope for a Better Future Dies
Below are the remarks from the October 15, 2019 “Off the Couch” viewing of Joker with Alistair McKnight, PsyaD, LMHC, a Psychoanalyst Member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Alistair McKnight is on the faculty of the Psychotherapy Training Program. “Off the Couch” is part of a decades-long collaboration between The Coolidge Cinema and BPSI. Warner Bros. Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he...
read morePaola M. Contreras – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2019, Paola Michelle Contreras, PsyD, shares how she uses psychoanalytic ideas to understand human trafficking, to treat its victims, and to teach those caregivers who provide clinical service. She is the first candidate in psychoanalytic training to receive this award. Her conversation with another candidate in psychoanalytic training, Jane Keat, PsyD, was recorded in the library on October 11, 2019. Since 2006 Dr. Contreras has provided education and training to law enforcement, legal professionals,...
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