Sieg Maandag: Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen
Sieg Maandag: Leven en Kunst na Bergen-Belsen / Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen (Lecturis, 2020) is a new book, co-authored by BPSI Affiliate Scholar Member, Dawn Skorczewski, PhD. Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was seven years old when he was released from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His father was killed there, his mother survived camp Beendorf and was reunited with him. A photo of Sieg walking along a row of bodies in liberated Bergen-Belsen on 9 May 1945 shocked the world when it appeared in Life magazine....
read moreSpanish Conversation About Teen Parents – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, Diego Quiros interviews Malu Jimenez about a study of teen parents in Peru, in particular discussing teen fathers. 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 School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health...
read moreOn Writing
Ellen Pinsky, PsyD, is BPSI Faculty Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in The American Psychoanalyst, 55(2), Spring/Summer 2021, p. 10, which can be read here. I’ve been a writing teacher for decades, but only for the past 9 or 10 years have I taught about psychoanalytic case writing. Before I returned to graduate school and became an analyst, I was a middle school English teacher. I learned a lot from those young students, 11- and 12- year-olds, about what works in teaching writing. The children taught me to respect...
read moreMaternal Scholars Australia Book Launch for “Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering” – VIDEO
Video recording of a virtual book launch organized by Maternal Scholars Australia to celebrate BPSI Member, Nancy Chodorow, PhD and Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On (Palgrave, 2021) is now available. Click on the player below to watch. The event organized by Maternal Scholars Australia and held via ZOOM on June 25, 2021 presents a recently published collection of essays, edited by Australian sociologist Petra Bueskens and honoring Nancy Chodorow’s groundbreaking work. Nancy Chodorow and The...
read moreDr. Paola Contreras Speaks About Her Work With Victims of Trauma – AUDIO
In a recent episode of Alexandra M. Harrison’s podcast series, BPSI Member Paola Contreras, PsyD speaks about her work with victims of trauma in Latin America and in the US. Click on the player below to listen. Paola Michelle Contreras, PsyD is BPSI Psychoanalyst Member, Co-Chair of Community Division and the 2019 Arthur R. Kravitz Award recipient (click here to watch a recent video interview about her humanitarian work). Since 2006 Dr. Contreras has provided education and training to law enforcement, legal professionals, as well as...
read moreTen Big Bets: Transforming Education During the Pandemic and Beyond
Ten Big Bets: Transforming Education During the Pandemic and Beyond (PEAR and Clover Press, 2020) is a new book by BPSI Psychoanalyst and Faculty Member, Gil G. Noam, PhD. The global pandemic has thrown schooling into disarray. Teachers, parents, and children alike face uncertainty, while distance learning strains the human connections that make schooling meaningful. In this book, noted Harvard psychologist and educator Dr. Gil Noam reminds the reader that times of upheaval demand fundamental positive change. Rather than providing a technical...
read moreNancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On
This new book, edited by Petra Bueskens, a psychotherapist and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and published by Palgrave in 2021, revisits Nancy Chodorow’s groundbreaking and highly influential 1978 book The Reproduction of Mothering. This publication brings together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow Women Mother Daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering After Forty Years and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne...
read moreCaste – Book Review
Marcia Smith-Hutton is BPSI Psychotherapist and Library Committee Member. Her below remarks originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Wilkerson, I. (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House, 496 pp. The tentacles of white supremacy stretch far. The tyranny of caste is that we are judged by attributes that we cannot change (or cannot easily change), such as the color of our skin, our gender, and physical disabilities. The price of privilege is the moral duty to...
read moreLullabies – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD discusses the universal and culture specific qualities of lullabies and why it is so good to sing to your baby. 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 School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental...
read moreBorn A Crime – Book Review
Ellen Goldberg, PhD, is a Child Neuropsychologist and a Psychotherapist Member of BPSI. Her remarks below originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of the library newsletter, which can be read here. Noah, T. (2016). Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Spiegel & Grau, 288 pp. In many ways, Trevor Noah is a remarkable comedian. He dances on a tight rope while he explores real life hardships, political discontent, and humor. I occasionally watched his show and other late-night comedians during the pandemic. His...
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