Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

From 1934 until 1945, Otto Fenichel and a small group of left-leaning psychoanalysts were forced to flee the rise of Nazism in Germany. As refugees, they furtively shared their ideas about the politics of institutional psychoanalysis through a series of private Rundbriefe (circulating letters, or circulars), and discussed in the exchange of letters the possibility […]

This is a concise and accessible 5-session introduction to theories of adult development, featuring literary and historical case studies. In weekly meetings we'll read Carol Gilligan, Erik Erikson, and Usha Tummala-Narra on processes of change in the context of social justice. In tandem we'll read a new graphic memoir of adolescence by a Korean-American artist-writer […]

Publication of the first-ever special *climate change* issue of BPSI's Library Newsletter, with thoughtful contributions by: --issue editor/psychoanalyst Delia Kostner --psychoanalyst Rita Teusch: a survey of BPSI trainees on climate issues --psychoanalyst Jack Foehl: a personal tribute to Donna Orange --BPSI and Chicago Psychoanalytic Society/Institute member Linda Emanuel: an appreciation of Susan Kassouf’s recent paradigm-changing […]