Cordelia 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...
read moreA Dog as a Family Member – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Monique Udell, animal behavior researcher, talks about human-dog bonding, evolutionary factors influencing the social wellbeing of dogs, and intervention programs aimed at improving the lives of dogs and the humans they live with. 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...
read moreFred, Ethel, and Me
A friend was enjoying a walk through the woods behind her home when she heard a high-pitched cacophony of yipping, and yowling coming from a coyote and two baby kittens fighting for their lives. She rescued the them and I took both kittens when they were eight weeks old. They are named Fred and Ethel after my favorite characters on the I Love Lucy show. Ethel is a black small cat with slightly rough fur. She reminds me of T.S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger “who is a curious cat. For he will do as he do do.” Fred is the biggest cat my vet has seen....
read moreGil Noam – The Kravitz Award Series – VIDEO
The recipient of the 2016 Kravitz Award, Gil Noam, PhD (Habi.), EdD, talks about his work with children and educators in an interview to Ann Epstein, MD, recorded in the BPSI Library on Oct 29, 2021. Gil Noam, EdD, Dr. Habil. is a nationally recognized developmental and educational psychologist, the founder and Advisory Board Chair of the Partnerships in Education & Resilience (PEAR) Institute, director of the Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth at McLean Hospital, and a faculty member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and...
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