Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jan 22, 2020 in History, Library Corner | 0 comments

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...

Meet The Author of “On Dangerous Ground” with Diane O’Donoghue, PhD

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jan 16, 2020 in Library Corner, Uncategorized | 0 comments

The 2020 Alan Pollack Psychotherapy Conference on the Nature of the Transference

Posted by Stephanie Maggiano on Dec 31, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

A Tribute to Tony Kris: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor and Analyst – VIDEO

Posted by Drew Brydon on Dec 30, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

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

Posted by Stephanie Maggiano on Dec 28, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

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.

Somatic Receptivity in the Analyst (The 2020 Winter Academic Lecture)

Posted by Drew Brydon on Dec 10, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Reworking Gender: Trans, Nonbinary and Gender-Expansive Experiences in Theory and Practice

Posted by Stephanie Maggiano on Dec 8, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

The Report: A Depiction of Trauma and Othering after September 11, 2001

Posted by Drew Brydon on Dec 5, 2019 in Arts at BPSI, History | 0 comments

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...

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Posted by Drew Brydon on Nov 25, 2019 in History, Library Corner | 0 comments

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...

Joker: When Hope for a Better Future Dies

Posted by Drew Brydon on Nov 14, 2019 in Arts at BPSI, History | 0 comments

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...