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...

Paola M. Contreras – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO

Posted by Office on Oct 24, 2019 in History, Social Awareness | 0 comments

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,...

Making a Person: Psychoanalytic Work with Autism and Psychotic Anxieties in Childhood

Posted by Drew Brydon on Oct 22, 2019 in Continuing Education Available, Events | 0 comments

Finding a Place to Stand

Posted by Office on Oct 11, 2019 in Recent Work | 0 comments

Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens (Phoenix Publishing House, 2020) is a new book by a BPSI member, Edward R. Shapiro, MD. What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim...

The Name of the Piggle: Reconsidering Winnicott’s Classic Case in Light of Some Conversations with the Adult ‘Gabrielle’

Posted by Drew Brydon on Oct 9, 2019 in History, Library Corner | 0 comments

International University Press Ellen Goldberg, PhD, is a Psychotherapist Member of BPSI. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Winter 2018 Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. D. A. Luepnitz (2017) International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 98(2), 343-370. Click here to access the online publication or contact library@bpsi.org to request a copy. In this remarkable article, the author Deborah Anna Luepnitz, a psychotherapist from Philadelphia, reports on her conversations with ‘Gabrielle’, or the Piggle, the...

Facets of Race in Psychoanalysis

Posted by Drew Brydon on Oct 9, 2019 in Continuing Education Available, Events | 0 comments

Race and the Sociopolitical in Clinical Practice

Posted by Drew Brydon on Oct 9, 2019 in Events | 0 comments

Meet the Author – Fred Busch – VIDEO

Posted by Office on Oct 4, 2019 in History, Library Corner | 0 comments

Fred Busch, PhD, discussed his new book The Analyst’s Reveries: Explorations in Bion’s Enigmatic Concept (Routledge, 2019) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the BPSI Library. While the use of the analyst’s own reveries in work with patients has increased in recent times, there has been little critical inquiry into its value, and the problems it may lead to. Busch finds increasing veneration for the analyst’s use of their reveries, while revealing important differences amongst post-Bionians in how reverie is defined and used clinically. Fred...