The Squid Game… or The Id Game?
by Simona Grabel, PhD As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport. ~ King Lear As shameful as it was to have watched the entire Squid Game Netflix series, I can safely say that it shows us something deeply true about human nature. This truth applies to the characters (the wanton boys and the flies), and to us, the viewers. Without giving away too much of the plot, (but still: Spoiler Alert!), the story has us follow the main character, Seong Gi-hun, a hapless Korean man, as he voluntarily is drawn into a...
read moreBPSI’s Collaboration with the Freud Museum in Vienna
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Daniela Finzi, Research Director at the Freud Museum in Vienna, contacted our archives to request several of Grete Bibring’s guest lists and photographs from the Edward Bibring photograph collection to showcase these materials at the special exhibit Organized Escape – Survival in Exile. Viennese Psychoanalysis 1938 and Beyond, opening...
read moreYour Highly Sensitive Child – Part II
In this episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Jessica Merle gives thoughts on how to manage reactions of other adults, including teachers, health professionals, extended family, and friends to a highly sensitive child. It’s the 2nd episode in a new series on the “Highly Sensitive Child”, the 1st episode can be accessed here. 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...
read moreNew “Children in War” Materials at BPSI Archives
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Roberta Apfel and Bennett Simon next to the conference poster drawn by a local artist, Sarah Shay. Jerusalem, 1989. BPSI Members, Roberta Apfel, MD and Bennett Simon, MD, have contributed additional materials for the Children in War collection they had kindly donated to the BPSI Archives in 2018. Among recent acquisitions are papers,...
read moreYour Highly Sensitive Child, Part I – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, an accomplished professional woman and the mother of a highly sensitive child describes mothering her wonderful yet challenging child and what she has learned from this experience. It’s the 1st episode in a new series on the “Highly Sensitive Child”. 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...
read moreLewis Kirshner’s Landscape Paintings
Four landscape paintings by BPSI Member, Lewis Kirshner, featuring different seasons, are on display in the library this fall. Read Dr. Kirshner’s artist statement below to learn about his sources of inspiration. I took up oils again to learn about portrait painting from a St Johnsbury, Vermont, artist, Ed Kadunc, who was immensely helpful for theory and practice. Later, upon relocating to Amsterdam, I continued lessons from another talented teacher, Charissa van der Kerk. It helps to know what you are doing, especially when it comes to...
read moreMeet the Author – Judy Kantrowitz – VIDEO
Judy L. Kantrowitz, PhD discussed her recently published book The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the BPSI Library, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on Sep 27, 2021. Click here or on the player above to watch. A few copies of autographed books are still on sale in the library. Click here to purchase your copy for $30 (shipping cost is included in the price). Follow this link to watch other webinars...
read moreA Salute to Janet Malcolm, Provocative Author of “Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession”
Shari Thurer, ScD, is a BPSI Psychotherapist Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. When I first read journalist Janet Malcolm’s Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession in 1981, I wanted to be Janet Malcolm…notably not the psychoanalyst she profiled. This may seem odd as I later became a psychotherapist, not a journalist. But Malcolm struck me as being far more insightful than her analyst subject. Certainly, she had the greater caustic wit. Malcolm...
read moreWomen Histories in Photos – Lydia Dawes
Olga Umansky, MLIS, is a librarian and archivist of the Hanns Sachs Library at BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Lydia Gibson Dawes, MD (1896-1990)BPSI Photograph Collection, BPSI Archives This portrait of BPSI Member Lydia Gibson Dawes, MD (1896-1990), donated to our archives by John Terry Maltsberger in 1990, is one our recent treasured rediscoveries. Lydia Dawes was one of BPSI’s first women trainees in 1936-1940, first child analyst and...
read moreWho is Reading Us? Recent Reviews of BPSI Authors’ Books
In the attempt to celebrate BPSI Authors remotely, we continue featuring a compilation of reviews of, and interviews about, books that have been recently published by our members. If we have missed a review of your recent work, please share the reference with our library and we will cite it in the future issues of the library newsletter! BPSI Authors are listed alphabetically. Follow the DOI links below to download fulltext (requires a journal subscription), or request articles from the library. Brown, L. (2018). Transformational Processes in...
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