New building photo exterior

Posted by wpadmin on Mar 11, 2014 in BBF Gallery | 0 comments

New building on hill

Posted by wpadmin on Mar 11, 2014 in BBF Gallery | 0 comments

Say Brother: Dan and Ted Jacobs in Conversation

Posted by Carole on Mar 10, 2014 in Events | 0 comments

The Americanization of Narcissism by Elizabeth Lunbeck

Posted by Office on Jan 30, 2014 in Recent Work | 0 comments

Elizabeth Lunbeck Harvard University Press, February 2014 Read an interview about this book in the New Republic. Meet the Author on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 7:45pm in the BPSI Library. American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch’s famous 1978 jeremiad The Culture of Narcissism. This line of...

To suffer pleasure

Posted by Carole on Jan 21, 2014 in Events | 0 comments

An “Off the Couch” Discussion of the Film Nebraska

Posted by Office on Jan 13, 2014 in Arts at BPSI, Events, History | 0 comments

By Michele Baker , M.D. The Nebraska of director Alexander Payne and writer Bob Nelson’s movie of the same name, shot in iconic black and white, evokes the childhood of the film’s central character. The elderly Woodrow Grant, brought to life by Bruce Dern, is a man with dementia who has a monomaniacal drive to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, in order to collect the $1 million he delusionally believes he has won in what everyone else in his life knows is a misleading advertising scam. Woody’s sidekick on his poignant road trip is his younger son,...

Second Academic Lecture Cancelled

Posted by Carole on Jan 2, 2014 in Events | 0 comments

15 Commonwealth by Allen J. Palmer, MD

Posted by Office on Oct 28, 2013 in Recent Work | 0 comments

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute at 15 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 1952-2012, Allen Palmer’s book of beautiful photographs of BPSI’s former home, you can find it at http://www.blurb.com/books/3156498-15.

Dreaming and the Expressive Function of the Mind: Transformation from Emotion to Meaning

Posted by Carole on Oct 18, 2013 in Events | 0 comments

Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory

Posted by Office on Oct 17, 2013 in Recent Work | 0 comments

                  Fred Busch New York: Routledge, 2013 Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years called Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. It is based on the essential curative process basic to most psychoanalytic theories – the need for a shift in the patient’s relationship with their own mind. Busch shows that with the development of a...