Steven H. Cooper and Judy L. Kantrowitz(Eds) – Anton O. Kris: Selected Papers
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book The work of Tony Kris is a rare treasure for practicing psychoanalysts: He was famous for making grand technical terms work for practicing analysts in their office. What is the actual experience of a patient who is wrestling with a “conflict?” Kris reaches into that most basic term and finds that it may refer to two quite different kinds of quandary, each with its own set of choices. He describes the particular kind of pain that patients fear. (Think how overlooking what’s at stake in one of...
read moreFred Busch: The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
Book purchases can be made here. 30% Discount for IPA Members: Enter the code IPA30 at checkout About the Book The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory. International contributors explore the themes of this remarkable work from their own perspective, with novel and surprising results. There are mysteries uncovered, questions raised about the validity of Freud’s perspective, problems in psychoanalytic...
read moreJournal Articles and Chapters by BPSI Authors
If you would like to be featured on our blog, please email Librarian Nina Rabkina at library@bpsi.org to have your works added! 2022-2023 Ayelet Barkai, MD Barkai, A. R., Anonymous, Altman, N., Rubin, C., & Drasin, R. (2023). Taking outside in, turning inside out: Exploring social dimensions and psychotherapeutic process in the play therapy of a young girl in foster care. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104(2), 281–300. Andrea Celenza, PhD Celenza, A. (2022). Maternal erotic transferences and the work of the abject. Journal...
read more4th Lifetime Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory
Please join us in congratulating BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory. The ceremony will take place via Zoom on December 2, 2023 from 11am – 1:30pm EST. For more information and to register for the event, please click here.
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Mind in the Line of Fire
BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently co-edited the manuscript Mind in the Line of Fire: Psychoanalytic Voices to the Challenges of our Times. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book Invited by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) to participate in a worldwide short essay contest, in this book the winners, 120 authors from 34 countries, share their thoughts about the challenges and complexities of our times. They show how wars, migration, climate change, racial prejudice,...
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Memento
BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently published her new manuscript Memento: A Novel in Dreams, Thoughts, and Images. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book If Fellini met Kafka, the comical with the dark side of the absurd . . .Sine, a professor of creative writing, accompanies Sam, a neuroscientist, on a conference trip to a Hotel Castle. Sam wants to present a new device, the monitor. Sine wants to recover from the months of tending to her mother who just passed away. When they arrive...
read moreThe Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis (TAACP)
The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis is an organization focussed on centering Asian Americans in psychoanalytic thinking, writing, and practice. All are welcome to attend their opening event: Becoming Asian American on May 18 via Zoom. For more information and to register for this event, please click here.
read moreRevisiting the Maternal
BPSI Member Andrea Celenza, PhD, will be giving a talk in collaboration with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis on May 6th. For more information and to register for this event, please click here. “The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyt’s invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of the other components implicit through nonverbal means (through gaze and displaced touch) eroticism as well. In this...
read moreDon Lipsitt: Insights from a Sixty-Four-Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa
BPSI Member Don Lipsitt, MD, published his new manuscript Insights from a Sixty-Four Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa this past April. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the 64 year period 1938-2002. Through discussion and analysis of clinical notes and transcripts, Lipsitt traces the course of the patient’s illness to consider the...
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