Out of the Conceptual Closet: Applying Evolving Theories of Psychosexualities to Clinical Work
read moreLooking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst
Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst by a BPSI member, Paul Ornstein, with Helen Epstein, and an afterword by Charles Fenyvesi has just been released by Plunkett Lake Press. The book is available in paperback for $15.95 (click here to order). You can also purchase it in the electronic format for your Kindle, Nook, Apple iBooks, or Kobo for $9.99 (if you don’t have an eBook device, you can still read it on your tablet or any computer – ask BPSI librarian for assistance). NEW: Watch a recent interview of Paul Ornstein by Daniel...
read moreSexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains at the heart of much psychoanalytic theory and practice but it is a complex and controversial subject. Edited by Alessandra Lemma and Paul E. Lynch, this volume includes a range of international contributions that examine contemporary issues and trace common themes needed to understand any sexuality,...
read moreSecond Academic Lecture of 2015-2016 — Jonathan Kolb, MD: Confessions of a Recovering Ego Psychologist
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 6:15 PM Reception Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 141Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Lecture Wilson Hall 234 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459 Please Click Here to Register Presenter Jonathan Kolb, MD Discussants Lisa Citrin, LICSW; Wendy Epstein, PhD Moderator Kimberly Boyd, MD During the course of the last 40 years, mainstream North American psychoanalysis, and particularly BPSI, have gone from being a place of one dominant theory, to being a place of multiple theories. It...
read moreFreud and the Buddha
Freud and the Buddha: The Couch and the Cushion edited by Axel Hoffer, MD. London: Karnac Books, 2015. Read Axel Hoffer’s thoughts on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other in a recent Karnacology blog! This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins with a discussion of the basic understanding of both psychoanalysis and Buddhism, viewed not as a religion but as a...
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