Little Women
“In the years after the Civil War, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.” Below are the remarks from the January 21, 2020 “Off the Couch” viewing of Little Women with Randall Paulsen, MD,...
read moreThe 2019 BPSI Early Childhood Conference on Immigrant Families with Young Children – VIDEO
Working with Immigrant Families with Young Children – Promoting Resiliency in the Face of Trauma, Loss, and Fear with Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, MS Ed, CEIS, Ivys Fernandez-Pastrana, JD, and Kara Hurvitz, JD, MSW. The Early Childhood Conference, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), recorded on May 18, 2019. In English, with Spanish sub-titles. The program is aimed at early childhood educators and clinicians who work with young immigrant children and families who have been impacted by immigration trauma. Our panel of three...
read moreAlexandra Harrison – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2013, Alexandra Harrison, MD, talks about her work with caregivers in orphanages worldwide to develop a model of treatment for infants and children with special needs. Her interview to Ellen Golding, PhD, was recorded in the library on December 20, 2019. 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...
read moreClimate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics
Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Orange, Donna M. (2017). Routledge, 147p. Donna Orange, a psychoanalyst and assistant clinical professor (adjunct) at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy is an internationally recognized teacher of psychoanalysis and humanistic ethics and the author of more than 10 books on ethics, hermeneutics and psychoanalysis written over the past 35 years. Her books...
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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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