Art Opening 2019

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jul 31, 2019 in Events | 0 comments

Thursday, September 12, 2019; 6:00pm – 7:00pm Join us for a wine & cheese reception as we celebrate the 29 artists chosen for the 2019-2020 Exhibit: Images of Psychoanalysis — The Inward Gaze. Paintings, collage, photography, wall sculpture, and textiles by: Myra Abelson, Don Alden, John Baker, Nadia Daly, Nancy Diessner, Alan Fortescue, Cheri Geckler, Lynda Goldberg, Jane Barnett Grignetti, Jane Hanenberg, Gittel Heschel-Aronson, Carly Inkpen, Susan Bienen Johnson, Sarah Kahn, Marja Lianko, Silvina Mizrahi, Rebecca Munro,...

In the Presence of the Other: The Struggle for Recognition (The 2019 Fall Academic Lecture)

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jul 30, 2019 in Continuing Education Available, Events | 0 comments

Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis

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

Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind, (Routledge, 2019) is a new publication by a BPSI Member, Michael Robbins, MD. The book proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization. Michael Robbins proposes instead that psychosis is the outcome of a different developmental...

Apology to the LGBTQ+ Community

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jul 3, 2019 in History, Social Awareness | 0 comments

At the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) meetings in June, responding to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots which marked the beginning of the modern era of LGBTQ+ rights, APsaA President Lee Jaffe apologized for our national organization’s historic role in abetting discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community. He said: “Regrettably, much of our past understanding of homosexuality as an illness can be attributed to the American psychoanalytic establishment. While our efforts in advocating for sexual and...

BPSI Bulletin – 2019 Spring/Summer

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jun 27, 2019 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Are you listening?

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jun 26, 2019 in History, Social Awareness | 0 comments

Stephanie Brody, PsyD, is the editor of the BPSI Bulletin. Her below remarks originally appeared as the introduction to the Spring-Summer 2019 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. In these times of conflict and fear, The Lord of the Rings has become a strangely comforting obsession: The forces of dark evil, the stunning moments that turn the tide, the women who prove their authority, the innocent folk who discover personal power. The trilogy unfolds as a kind of arc where conscious awareness and activism painfully emerge from...

What is this Professor Freud like? A diary of an analysis with historical comments

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jun 19, 2019 in History, Library Corner | 0 comments

Ed. Anna Koellreuter. Trans. Kristina Pia Hofer. Karnac Books, 2016. 117pp. Rita Teusch, PhD, Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. This historically fascinating book presents the diary notes (33 pages) of a 27 year old female Swiss psychiatrist, Dr. Anna Guggenbühl, written during her four month long analysis with Freud, six times a week, in 1921 (a total of 83 sessions). Her two diaries were discovered several years after her...

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership

Posted by Office on Jun 7, 2019 in Recent Work | 0 comments

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership (Routledge, 2019) is a new book, edited by BPSI Members, Stephanie Brody and Frances Arnold. In addition to several of Brody’s and Arnold’s papers, the book includes essays and clinical cases written by Rosemary Balsam, Brenda Bauer, Andrea Celenza, Diane Elise, Adrienne Harris, Dorothy Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Vivian Pendar, Dionne Powell, and Arlene Richards. Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about women, about who they are,...

The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten

Posted by Office on May 30, 2019 in Recent Work | 0 comments

“The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten” is a new book by a BPSI Member, Joan Wheelis, MD, published by W.W. Norton in April, 2019. Crafted from slivers of reminiscence and reflection, Joan Wheelis’s beautifully written memoir explores the intricacies of attachment and the perils of love and inevitable loss. The New York Times has recently reviewed and shortlisted Wheelis’s book for the best memoirs of 2019. We glimpse the author’s childhood in San Francisco and her relationship with her distinguished psychoanalyst parents...

Family Separation at the Border: August 2018

Posted by Drew Brydon on May 28, 2019 in History, Social Awareness | 0 comments

“If you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you, and the child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.” Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, U.S. Attorney General, May 7, 2018 Below are the remarks from the Fall 2018 BPSI Bulletin with Frances Lang, LICSW, Member of BPSI and Karen Melikian, PhD, Member of BPSI, of their experience interviewing fear-stricken mothers who were separated from their children while trying to cross the border into the United States in...