Psychoanalysis, History and Radical Ethics – Book Review
by Rita K. Teusch, PhD Rita Teusch, PhD, is a Faculty Member of BPSI. Her remarks below also appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of the Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter. Orange, D.M. (2020). Psychoanalysis, History and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear. Routledge, 182 pp. Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst and philosopher well known to analysts through several books and articles in which she masterfully explicates her philosophical and clinical quest for an Ethics that recognizes all humans as deserving of interpersonal recognition and...
read moreGood Sleep Habits for Your Child – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, talks to Meg Casano, a sleep consultant, to discuss how to help your child develop good sleep habits and how to help you deal with wakefulness. 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 moreMalkah Notman on IPA’s “Off the Couch” – AUDIO
BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst, Malkah Notman, MD, appeared on a recent episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to discuss how practicing analysis for many decades impacts one’s approach to the work. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 85: The Elder Analyst with Malkah Notman, MD Malkah Notman, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) and has been practicing for over 50 years. She is a Professor at Harvard Medical...
read moreFrom BPSI Video Archives
The following video recordings have recently been digitized and made available from the BPSI Archives. Email library@bpsi.org to request online access: Enid Balint’s visit to BPSI. Reminiscences about British Psychoanalytic Society, W.D. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Michael Balint. Discussants: Sanford Gifford and Enid Caldwell. Recorded at BPSI in Boston, MA, on March 8, 1989. BPSI Event Recordings Collection. Peter Fonagy’s lecture The Changing Aims of Psychoanalysis: Interface with Empirical Data. Discussant: John...
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Breastfeeding Made Easier – AUDIO
In a recent episode of her podcast series, Alexandra M. Harrison, MD, interviews a lactation consultant, Lauryl Ramakrishnan, who discusses the value of breastfeeding and how to troubleshoot difficulties in initiating and establishing breastfeeding. 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...
read moreMeet the Author – Nancy Chodorow – VIDEO
Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD, discussed her recently published book The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge, 2020) with Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of BPSI Library, and the online audience at our Meet the Author Webinar recorded on May 4, 2021. Click here or on the player above to watch. You can order the book directly from Routledge. You can also order a recent tribute publication Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On from the Palgrave website. Follow this...
read moreMeet The Author of “The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition” with Nancy Chodorow, PhD
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Edward Shapiro on IPA’s “Off the Couch” Podcast – AUDIO
BPSI Psychoanalyst Member Edward Shapiro, MD, appeared on a past episode of the IPA’s Off the Couch podcast to discuss his book, Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self Reflecting Institutions, Leaders and Citizens, with the program host, Steven Rolfe. Click on the link below to listen to the program on the podcast web page. Episode 25: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D. Edward Shapiro, MD, is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. A Founding Member of the Psychoanalytic Society and Institute...
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