The Analyst’s Reveries
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. A new book by our member Fred Busch The Analyst’s Reveries: Explorations in Bion’s Enigmatic Concept (Routledge, 2019) 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 Busch ponders if it has been fully recognized that...
read moreWorking with Immigrant Families with Young Children: Promoting Resiliency in the Face of Trauma, Loss, and Fear (The 2019 Early Childhood Conference)
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Dinner in the Garden
Poems by Steven Luria Ablon, MD Dinner in the Garden, a new book of poetry by our member, Steven Luria Ablon, explores how families interact and evolve and brings to play the deepest feelings. Dr. Ablon is a Training and Supervising Adult and Child Analyst at BPSI and an Associate Clinical Professor of Harvard University Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Ablon’s earlier books of poems are Tornado Weather (Mellen Press, 1993), Flying Over Tasmania (Fithian Press,...
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Psychoanalysis and Psychological Testing: Reawakening an Historical Relationship (The 2019 Spring Academic Lecture)
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Book Review of Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Simon & Schuster Shari Thurer, ScD, Psychotherapist Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of the Hann Sachs Library Newsletter, which can be read here. Review of Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, Simon & Schuster, 2018, 288 pp. “Tell all the truth,” wrote Emily Dickenson, “but tell it slant.” Author Lisa Halliday took her advice. In her much-praised novel Asymmetry, Halliday writes about an affair between elderly Ezra Blazer, a dead ringer for Philip Roth, with whom Halliday...
read moreThe Voice of Experience – Dan Buie – VIDEO
Dan Buie talks with his friend and colleague Alan Pollack about his life and his work with patients. Dan H. Buie, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), an associate professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, and the author of numerous publications on empathy, aggression, suicide, and borderline psychopathology. Alan Pollack, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on the faculty at BPSI, where he was Director of Psychotherapy Training for 24 years. This conversation...
read moreDon’t Just Do Something, Sit There! (The 2019 Alan Pollack Psychotherapy Conference on the Nature of the Transference)
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Screenagers and Library 3.13
Olga Umansky, librarian of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall-Winter 2018 issue of the BPSI Bulletin, which can be read here. “What is the right age to get a smartphone?” “Can I take her phone away? It is my phone, after all!” “What amount of screen time is OK? How do we know if their brains can handle it?” “How can my child not use a phone in school? The homework assignments are actually on the computer!” These were the questions addressed to the panel of child psychiatrists in the...
read moreTransformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis
In his new book, Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment (Routledge, 2018), Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour. Brown surveys the developments in theory and practice that follow from Freud’s original observations and traces this evolution from its conception to contemporary analytic field theory. He emphasizes that these...
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