FREE ASSOCIATION: When the Dream World Becomes the Real World
James Frosch, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. His below remarks originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2019 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. The unsophisticated waking judgement of someone who has just woken from sleep assumes that his dreams, even if they did not themselves come from another world, had at all events carried him off into another world. — Freud I have a recurrent fantasy. I’m asleep. I wake up in a fearful sweat. I nudge my wife and say, “I had...
read moreAnna Ornstein – The Kravitz Award Series VIDEO
The Arthur R. Kravitz Award Recipient of 2018, Anna Ornstein, MD, is interviewed by Steven Varga-Golovcsenko, MD about her dedication to teaching about the Holocaust and the dangers of intolerance. The conversation was recorded in Brookline, MA on Aug 21, 2019. Anna Ornstein, MD, is a Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard University, and a Supervising Analyst at BPSI. She was born in Hungary in...
read moreThe Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
In her new book, The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge, 2019), Nancy J. Chodorow brings together her two professional identities, psychoanalyst and sociologist, as she also brings together and moves beyond two traditions within American psychoanalysis, naming for the first time an American independent tradition. The book’s chapters move inward, toward fine-tuned discussions of the theory and epistemology of the American independent tradition, which Chodorow locates...
read moreIf All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
Ilana Kurshan (2017). If All the Sees Were Ink. St. Martin’s Press, 320pp. Marcia Smith-Hutton, MSW, LICSW, BCD, is a Psychotherapist Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and a Member of BPSI’s Library Committee. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Ilana Kurshan is very comfortable with associations and metaphors; hence the title of this book. The Babylonian Talmud has frequently been referred to by the rabbis of old as the “sea.”...
read moreArt Opening 2019
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,...
read moreIn the Presence of the Other: The Struggle for Recognition (The 2019 Fall Academic Lecture)
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Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
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...
read moreApology to the LGBTQ+ Community
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...
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Are you listening?
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...
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