Freud and the Buddha

Posted by Office on Oct 15, 2015 in Recent Work | 0 comments

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...

Expanding and Deepening Your Practice: Why Become a Psychoanalyst?

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 26, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

The Annual Beata Rank Lecture October 2015

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 25, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Analyst’s Good Enough Capacity to Bear Repetition

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 24, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

THE POETICS OF INTERPRETATION: BIONIAN FIELD THEORY, DREAMS AND REVERIE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 21, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

BPSI PRESENTS A WEEKEND OF PROGRAMS FOCUSING ON THE WORK OF GIUSEPPE CITIVARESE, PHD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2015 Early Bird: $125.00, after November 20th: $165.00 Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and is Editor of their official journal Rivista di Psicoanalisi.  He has a private practice in Pavia, Italy.  He is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is the author of many books, including The Violence of Emotions: Bion and...

ON READING ROTH: PASSION, DESIRE, AND MORTALITY

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 20, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

THE ANNUAL S. JOSEPH NEMETZ MEMORIAL LECTURE 2015

Posted by Drew Brydon on Sep 13, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

Is Change Possible – First Academic Lecture

Posted by Drew Brydon on Aug 17, 2015 in Events | 0 comments

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Posted by Office on Aug 10, 2015 in Recent Work | 0 comments

Recent Publications by BPSI Authors   Nancy, J. Chodorow (2015). From the Glory of Hera to the Wrath of Achilles: Narratives of Second-Wave Masculinity and Beyond. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16: 261–270. Rona Knight, PhD (2014). Free to Be You and Me: Normal Gender-Role Fluidity—Commentary on Diane Ehrensaft’s “Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children” Related Papers. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:57-70. Rita K. Teusch, PhD (2015). Sadomasochistic Relations Between Ego and Superego in Anorexic Patients....

Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios

Posted by Drew Brydon on Jul 15, 2015 in Recent Work | 0 comments

EROTIC REVELATIONS: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios by Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014. This book is about erotic desires and fantasies, how our sexuality expresses our inner being and defines the ways in which we engage in the psychoanalytic situation. I am using erotic life in its broadest sense – the way we desire and love or desire to be loved on all levels, including within our sexual being.  We are drawn to the hidden and mysterious; we are tempted to push boundaries, even in the most permissive...