Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self
Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: the Legacy of Frances Tustin (Karnac, 2017) is a a new book co-edited by Howard B. Levine and David G. Power. Frances Tustin was a pioneering child psychotherapist who broke new ground in working with autistic children in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book amplifies and extends contributions by Tustin to the study and treatment of autism, autistic spectrum disorders and autistic defenses and enclaves in non-autistic patients. It offers readers a contribution to the...
read moreConsciousness, Language, and Self by Michael Robbins
Consciousness, Language, and Self: Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind is a new title by BPSI’s member, Michael Robbins, MD, published by Routledge in 2018. The book proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The “mother tongue,” the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero and our second language, reflective...
read moreGuided Enactments in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Guided Enactments in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A New Look at Therapy With Adults and Children (Lexington Books, 2017) is a new book by Sebastiano Santostefano, a retired associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a BPSI Member. Thirty five percent of persons who are provided psychotherapy do not benefit from treatment, or drop out of therapy prematurely because they fail to establish a working alliance with the therapist. To address this issue the volume presents a matrix of concepts...
read moreThe Voice of Experience – Ana-Maria Rizzuto – VIDEO
Ana-María Rizzuto, MD, shared insights about her life and work in her recent interview to Axel Hoffer, MD, for “The Voice of Experience” series of webcasts. The conversation was recorded in the library just a few months before Ana-María moved to Argentina. Dr. Rizzuto is an Adjunct Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Training and Supervising Analyst Emerita of the PINE Psychoanalytic Institute. She has written numerous articles in national and international journals and lectured about her work in North...
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The Allure of Trump’s Narcissism
What is meant by Trump’s narcissism? In this article from the Los Angeles Review of Books, BPSI Faculty and Member, and Harvard historian Elizabeth Lunbeck unpacks the president’s appeal to his constituents, finding a capability where others find a pathological diagnosis. Exploring the popular and medical definitions of the term, Lunbeck provocatively also suggests its flipside–the charm and charisma that often gets political leaders ahead. The current presidency demonstrates as much the capacities as the liabilities...
read moreConversations with People Who Hate Me – Dylan Marron Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk
Dr. Michele Baker is a graduate and psychoanalyst member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Fall-Winter 2017 issue of the BPSI Bulletin. My husband is a rabbi. He was raised Episcopalian and converted, so he is Jewish, but not exactly in the same way I am. He didn’t have Jewish grandparents who paid him to eat the three cardinal food groups: milk, eggs, and bananas. He didn’t go to Jewish summer camp. And he wasn’t raised to hate Germans. So of course, as the chaplain at a Jewish Senior Life housing facility, he thought it...
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Interviews with Nancy Chodorow and Jane Kite
Two of our members, Nancy Chodorow and Jane Kite, have recently given interviews to Robert Winer and Kerry L. Malawista for a publication in Who’s Behind the Couch? The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst (Karnac, 2017). The book explores the analyst’s mind at work, not so much from a theoretical perspective, but rather from the complexities and richness inherent in every moment-to-moment clinical encounter. Other notable interviewees featured in the book are Stefano Bolognini, Richard Waugaman, Ilany Kogan, Rosemary Balsam, Joseph...
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