Your 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...
read moreFred Busch on IPA’s “On and Off the Couch” – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Fred Busch, PhD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s On and Off the Couch podcast to discuss wisdom, enthusiasm, affection, and encouragement that the older generation of psychoanalysts conveys to the future generation in Dear Candidate (Routledge, 2020), the first-kind-of-a-book he had edited. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the IPA podcast web page. Episode 89: Wisdom and Enthusiasm for Today’s Candidates with Fred Busch, PhD Fred Busch, PhD, is the author...
read moreJournal Articles and Book Chapters by BPSI Authors
2020-2021 Saporta, J. (2021). Psychoanalysis and our cultural crisis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education: Subject, Action & Society, 1(1), 91-109. Diane O’Donoghue, PhD (2021). Amnesias of a Freudian Kind – Part II. American Imago, 78(4), 601-617. Cuneyt Iscan, MD (2021). Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis, by John Steiner, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2020, 167 pp. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81, 549–553. Randall H. Paulsen, MD & Don R. Lipsitt, MD (2021). The Balint Group:...
read moreA Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique (Routledge, 2021) is a new collection of select papers on psychoanalysis by a BPSI Member, Fred Busch, PhD. Covering key topics such as what is unique about psychoanalysis, interpretation, psychic truth, the role of memory and the importance of the analyst’s reveries, this book brings together the author’s most important work on this subject for the first time. Taken as a whole, Busch’s work has provided an updated Freudian model for a curative process through psychoanalysis, along with the...
read moreKimberlyn Leary On Psychoanalysis and Social Equity – TAP Interview
Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, MPA, is BPSI Trustee Member, Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Associate Professor, at the Department of Health Policy and Management of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Lecturer in Public Policy, at Harvard Kennedy School. Her interview to Justin Shubert, PsyD, PhD, psychoanalyst in Los Angeles and Co-founder of the Committee on Diversities and Sociocultural Issues at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and Chair of APsaA’s Committee on Gender and...
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