Dr. Anna Ornstein: “My Mother’s Eyes”
The Terezin Music Foundation will be premiering a short film featuring BPSI Member and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Anna Ornstein, in conversation with Terezin Music Foundation executive director Mark Ludwig. “On this date—which is also her 96th birthday—Anna talks about her childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary, the murder of most of her family, her years in Auschwitz with her mother, and her life after liberation. She reads from her memoir, “My Mother’s Eyes,” and—most importantly—offers a profound, urgent message for today. An unforgettable...
read moreIPA Off The Couch, Episode 105: Musical Improvisation and Free Association with Rafael Ornstein, MD
Click here to listen to the episode. Episode Description: We begin by recognizing the well-known analytic challenge which is to learn the basic scales and then learn to improvise – both being essential tools for creating a dependable and creative analytic space. Rafael shares with us his early familial psychoanalytic influences and his search to find his own voice. We discuss the similarities between analytic free association and musical improvisation. He demonstrates his clinical observations with three live musical renditions – first the...
read moreLawrence Brown: On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
BPSI member Larry Brown’s latest work, On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism,” was published on November 30th, 2022. Book orders can be made here. From Routledge: On Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism” discusses key themes in Sigmund Freud’s final book, Moses and Monotheism, written between 1934 and 1939. The contributors reflect on the historical context of the time during which the book was written, including Freud’s mindset and his struggle to leave Austria to escape the Nazi regime, and investigate its...
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau on IPA’s “On and Off the Couch” – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s On and Off the Couch podcast to talk about her novels, her theoretical writings, and her work as chair of the IPA in Culture Committee. Click on the image or follow the link below to access the podcast: Episode 104: The Eyes, The Drives, and Culture with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD is the author of many papers and books on theoretical, clinical and applied psychoanalysis,...
read moreRainbow Dance – AUDIO
Dicki Johnson Macy, Director of the Boston Children’s Foundation and creator of Rainbow Dance, begins a series of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast episodes on Kids and Dance by telling a fascinating story of Rainbow Dance, an activity of movement and music that captures the imagination of children and their caregivers while also bringing calm and comfort. Listen on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and...
read moreNancy Chodorow – Thoughts for the Times on Women and Men – AUDIO
In the new IPA’s Talk on Psychoanalysis podcast, recorded in honor of the International Women’s History Month, BPSI Member Nancy Chodorow, PhD, draws on her writings on individualizing gender and sexuality, masculinities, her research on early women psychoanalysts, and Freud’s social writings, such as Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a set of twin essays written six months after the outbreak of World War I. Click on the player below to listen or follow this link to the podcast webpage. Nancy Chodorow is Training and...
read moreGames for Early Child Development – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Katie Clark, Arts Educator and Program Director of the Cambridge-Ellis School talks about games for preschool children that support their cognitive and social and emotional development while they are having fun. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical...
read moreWomen Histories in Photos – Veronica Tisza
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Veronica Benedek Tisza (or Vera, as friends and colleagues called her) was a prominent child psychiatrist, training director of the psychiatry department at the Tufts Floating Hospital in Boston, and a beloved supervisor of many young child analysts at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Veronica Benedek Tisza (1912-1991)....
read moreKids and Games 1 – AUDIO
Monty Stambler, MD, BPSI Member, Child Psychoanalyst, and Co-founder with his wife of a children’s game company, Gamewright, introduces Alex Harrison’s new series of podcasts “Kids and Games” with a discussion about how children’s games support their psychosocial development. Click on the player below to listen. Alexandra Murray Harrison, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard...
read morePsychological Roots of the Climate Crisis – Book Review
by Rita K. Teusch, PhD Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below also appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter. Weintrobe, S. (2021). Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. Bloomsbury Academic, 344 pp. We are extremely fortunate to have British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe in our international psychoanalytic community. Over the past two decades she has been dedicated to bringing the urgent climate crisis into our...
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