Hanns Sachs Library Newsletter Spring 2024 | |
Please see if you have library books on loan ready to be returned. You can either mail them to the library or drop them off during your next visit to BPSI. | |
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Our BPSI RESOURCES page provides an updated list of resources on race, diversity equity and otherness, as well as the Final Report of the Holmes Commission.
The Library Corner of the BPSI Blog features announcements of recently published journal articles by BPSI members. If you have a publication in press or your recent work has been reviewed, please share your news with our library!
You can also head to our Library Catalog any time to see what books we have available to check out.
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Publications by BPSI Authors | |
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Books published by BPSI authors can be found on our Recent Work blog.
An updated list of recent journal articles by BPSI authors can be found in the Library Corner section of our blog.
If you have works that you would like to be added to these pages, please contact Veronica Davis via at library@bpsi.org.
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Click here to watch our most recent Meet the Author event with Shari Thurer, Sc.D, and Panelists Robin Ely and Robin Haas, LICSW.
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Meet Shellburne Thurber on April 9, 2024, to discuss her book, Analysis.
Many BPSI members will find their office amongst the pages of Shellburne Thurber’s latest publication. Thurber's photos are of offices devoid of analyst or patients. It is a meditation on space, time, and the psychoanalytic process. As Dan Jacobs wrote in an end-piece for this book:
“Thurber’s brilliant images keep us in suspense, expecting, wondering, dreaming. They remind us where we live: between coming and going, living and dying, amidst what has happened to us and what is yet to come."
About the Book:
"While the subject of psychoanalysis has appeared in the work of many contemporary artists, particularly through the citation of psychoanalytic theory, Thurber takes another route in arriving at one of her most significant bodies of work—a series of square format chromogenic prints depicting the unoccupied office spaces of psychoanalysts. Initiated in 1998 in Buenos Aires, the project continued through a Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University) in 1999–2000, enabling her to pursue the project in the Boston area. Unlike art practices that seek to demonstrate theoretical premises, Thurber’s work instead elaborates upon a long photographic history, fusing particular formal concerns with an interest in people: their varying abilities to communicate, and the ways in which the constructed environment (homes, motels, offices) can articulate, by containing, the complexities of the lives that pass through them. The issues most clearly raised by her psychoanalytic interiors and the ideas they evoke — absence, emptiness, the unconscious, the unstable boundaries between self and other — are also subjects of Thurber’s work as a whole."
- Lia Gangitano, from the text Psychoanalytic Interiors
About the Author
Shellburne Thurber graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. Her work has been in numerous group and one person shows both here and abroad. Her work is in several collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Worcester Art Museum; and the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park.
Shellburne Thurber has taught extensively throughout New England, most recently as a visiting professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and was recently awarded a fellowship from the Saint Gaudens National Historic Site.
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Meet Robert Waldinger, MD, on October 15, 2024, to discuss his book, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study of Happiness
A New York Times Bestseller
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their “captivating” (Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, show that the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.
What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and healthier lives. In fact, the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveals that the strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our brains as we go through life.
The invaluable insights in this book emerge from the revealing personal stories of hundreds of participants in the Harvard Study as they were followed year after year for their entire adult lives, and this wisdom was bolstered by research findings from many other studies. Relationships in all their forms—friendships, romantic partnerships, families, coworkers, tennis partners, book club members, Bible study groups—all contribute to a happier, healthier life. And as The Good Life shows us, it’s never too late to strengthen the relationships you already have, and never too late to build new ones. The Good Life provides examples of how to do this.
Dr. Waldinger’s TED Talk about the Harvard Study, “What Makes a Good Life,” has been viewed more than 42 million times and is one of the ten most-watched TED talks ever. According to bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert, The Good Life uses “insightful and interesting life stories” to show us how we can make our lives happier and more meaningful through our connection with others.
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Below are a few of our newest books available at BPSI. Please email Veronica Davis to inquire about loaning books. | |
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Ecotherapy: A Field Guide, by David Key and Keith Tudor (2023)
Ecotherapy: A Field Guide is a refreshing overview of an emerging discipline which is keenly aware of cultural issues. Many of the terms currently being used to describe ecotherapy are culturally inappropriate and therapeutically counterproductive. This book ensures that great care is taken to describe the work in a way that privileges the traditions that predate the modern interest in this subject, using a methodology informed by critical theory and deep ecology.
With contributions from Ben Classen, Dion Enari, Rebecca Freeth, Rupert Hutchinson, Hayley Marshall, Jacoba Matapo, Gina O’Neill and Bianca Stawiarski.
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Queering Psychotherapy, edited by Jane C. Czyzselska (2022)
LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentric psychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender and white theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this “othered” lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they and those who use them – queer therapists included – can often pathologize, marginalize, misunderstand and diminish the flourishing and diversity of queer experience.
In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives.
The contributors to Queering Psychotherapy present key insights and practical advice in a dynamic conversational format, providing intimate access to therapists’ personal and professional knowledge and reflections. This book is an invaluable training in itself.
With contributions from Meg-John Barker, Anthea Benjamin, Kris Black, Sabah Choudrey, Jane Chance Czyzselska, Dominic Davies, Bay De Veen, Robert Downes, Paul Harris, Ellis J. Johnson, Gail Lewis, Amanda Middleton, Igi Moon, Charles Neal, Karen Pollock, Beck Thom, Valentino Vecchietti, Jake Yearsley, and Neil Young.
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Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka, by Michal Shapiro (2023)
This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’s least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.
Scholars of sexuality often focus on Freud’s writings on male homosexuality, disregarding his views on homosexual women. This book serves as a corrective, renewing and reinvigorating interest in Freud, and demonstrating that his views on sexuality are as relevant today as ever. Part I introduces the case and explores Freud’s attitudes towards lesbianism, radical among his medical colleagues in the early twentieth century. It also puts Margarethe Csonka, the patient, at its center. Michal Shapira considers Freud’s only treatment of a "female homosexual" and assesses Csonka’s background life before and after the encounter. Part II expands the case beyond the scientific-medical purview of the times and looks at the new opportunities afforded to women and assimilated Jews through growing equality and the modernization of urban life in 1920s Vienna.
This book places Csonka’s case within the broader context of medical and psychological texts, Freud’s own writings, Jewish and queer history, and modern Vienna’s urban and art history. Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to readers interested in the history of gender and sexuality, feminism, modern European and urban history, the history of psychoanalysis, science and medicine, and the history of ideas.
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The BPSI Library is happy to announce our 5th publication. It is Malkah Notman’s History of Women at BPSI: The First 70 Years, set to be released this month! Notman details the story of women’s involvement at BPSI, from its female founders through its first seven decades, blending her own experiences at BPSI with historical data accompanied by portraits of the many women who have helped to shape BPSI.
We will be sending more information on how to purchase a copy very soon!
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In the Archive
Archival Requests
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The BPSI Archive recently received a request from a researcher at the University of Essex in the UK for three interviews conducted by Dr. Sanford Gifford (pictured here). These interviews were conducted with Enid Balint (1989), Helene Deutsch (1973), and Else Pappenheim (1973) and are part of Gifford’s Oral History Interviews Series. To learn more about this collection, please visit our website here.
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In February, we were contacted by the granddaughter of Franz Alexander (pictured here) in search of papers, correspondence, and other documents written by her grandfather. Alexander spent one year in Boston before leaving in 1932 to help found the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. The BPSI Archive holds a number of correspondences between Alexander and Ives Hendrick from 1930-1938, as well as a paper that he presented at BPSI in 1948 titled “Analysis of the Therapeutic Factors in Psychoanalytic Treatment.”
More information about the Ives Hendrick collection can be found here. For inquiries into our Programs and Papers, 1939-1972, collection, please email Librarian/Archivist Veronica Davis at library@bpsi.org.
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Archival Spotlight: Charles Pinderhughes, MD | |
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Charles Pinderhughes was a member of BPSI and the first Black candidate in our psychoanalytic training program. He completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth before attending Howard University for medical school and a medical internship. From 1944-1946, Pinderhughes was enlisted in the Army Medical Corps stationed in Tuskegee, an experience that he cited as the catalyst for shifting his focus towards studying psychoanalysis after treating a schizophrenic patient. In 1947, he came to Boston to start his medical residency at Cushing Hospital. During this time, Pinderhughes was encouraged to apply to BPSI by Felix Deutsch, who was his teacher at the hospital and who then became his analyst.
In a 1994 interview conducted by Sanford Gifford (available in the BPSI archives), Pinderhughes talks about Felix Deutch’s blindness to racial issues. As Dan Jacobs remarks, it was “a blindness with which most analysts of that era were afflicted with which some currently may be still.” Pinderhughes recalled:
“There was no such thing as racism, for instance, when I could not get an office again and again and again and again, and when I finally had an opportunity to get one, I could get it only if all of the physicians in the building would agree that I would be acceptable in the building with them and I knew three of them very well, and they were speaking for me. But he didn’t make any assumption about any reality of that kind; it was all what I was imputing to it, and that’s what got studied.”
Pinderhughes was a founding member of the Black Psychiatrists of America (BPA) and a member of the NAACP. According to a 1968 article in the New York Times, he was active in more than 70 groups dealing with racial issues. In May of 1968, Pinderhughes participated in a panel held in Boston for the APA titled “Black Power: An Identity Crisis,” in which he argued that the struggles of the Black Power movement resembled an adolescent’s attempt to achieve autonomy and independence from resistant parents. Photographs of Pinderhughes at this panel can be found here.
During his lengthy career, Pinderhughes developed a training program for mental health workers and aides at Boston State Hospital. He also taught at Boston University, Harvard, and Tufts, and served as Chief of Psychiatry, Chief of Research, Director of Training, and Director of Education at the Boston VA and Edith Rogers VA Hospitals.
~Veronica Davis
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Note: The following is an excerpt from an interview with Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D., a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI, who knew Charles Pinderhughes. The e-mail interview was conducted by John Martin-Joy, M.D. in February 2024; it has been lightly edited for length and clarity. The full interview is available in the BPSI Archives.
JMJ: What were BPSI admissions interviews like?
JK: I had three interviews, as was typical: one with Paul Meyerson, who later became my second supervisor; another with Lydia Dawes, a grand old lady who seemed to chat with me rather than interview me; and the third with Charles Pinderhughes, an amazing psychiatrist who was a BPSI researcher-scholar, working in dream research.
In the interview, Charlie (as I would come to call him) did an associative anamnesis. This is a procedure in which the subject is invited to associate to some stimuli; it tested one’s capacity for free associating. Charlie asked me what I wanted to do before I became interested in analysis. I told him I wanted to be a writer.
He asked me to tell him about some story I’d written and selected a part of it for me to reflect upon. I can’t really recall what happened next. All I know is that I emerged from some fog—a regression far greater than anything that occurred in analysis!! My husband, when I told him, was outraged, because I had clearly felt so emotionally overtaken. But I knew I had done well because Charlie said, “thank you - I feel I really got to know you.” In retrospect, I understood he was assessing my capacity for free association.
So I was admitted to BPSI in 1968. Once at BPSI, Charlie invited me to join his study group on dream deprivation, which I did. I remained in it during my semester years.
JMJ: What was the dream research group like?
JK: We tried to assess the differences between dreams when the subject had been deprived of sleep and when not. The hypothesis being that more primitive material—more “odds,” as they would then say—would be present. All very interesting, but nothing conclusive emerged, as I recall.
Charlie was a wonderful, inspiring man, smart, interesting. I always liked and admired him. The admissions interview he did with me remained vivid in my mind as a masterful piece of clinical skill.
JMJ: What career pathway did Pinderhughes take? Did he become a Training Analyst?
He did clinical work as well as research. He was well respected, and I think well liked. I don’t know why he didn’t become a TA/SA.
JMJ: Were you ever aware of any discrimination against him?
I was naive about the extent to which racism was so pervasive. I think my personal relationships with Black friends, my enormous respect for Charlie, really “blinded” me from taking in how much discrimination they and others had to face and endure. In 1968, I was caught up in protesting the Vietnam war, working to try to elect Eugene McCarthy... I now realize racism was an issue that would last and pervade our society long after these other concerns, serious as they were at the time, would fade. I feel embarrassed about how much I really didn’t take in at that time.
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A Referral from Sigmund Freud | |
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“Dear Doctor,
Would you please care for this little hysteria and think about how to treat it?
Cordially yours,
Freud”
In this undated note, handwritten in German on his Berggasse 19 prescription pad, Sigmund Freud asks a colleague to see a patient with hysteria. The identity of the patient and the colleague are unknown, but the informal tone suggests the recipient is someone who is familiar with Freud and his thinking about hysteria.
“Universitäts-Professor für NervenKrankheiten” refers to Freud’s position as Professor Extraordinarius at the University of Vienna, where he gave lectures including Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916-1917). Freud’s appointment, delayed by anti-Semitism, was approved in 1902. The note can thus be dated broadly to the prime of his career, between 1902 and his emigration to London in 1938.
The letter was donated to BPSI in 1964 by Boston attorney David R. Pokross (1906-2003) and his wife Muriel Pokross. David Pokross grew up in adversity. As an adult, he became involved in many charitable causes, including helping Jewish refugees from Nazism. He served as BPSI’s general counsel. Attorney and friend to Hanns Sachs, he was also an early benefactor of the Sachs Library and Archives.
Notes:
The BPSI Archives holds letters by Pokross, a transcribed oral history by Sanford Gifford, and a copy of Pokross’s book, Onward: Memoirs.
On the Freud note: Rp stands for das Rezept and is German for prescription.
~ John Martin-Joy, with translation assistance from Rita Teusch
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Thrall, Nathan (2023) A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy New York: Henry Holt. (pp. 255) | |
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The limits of free speech (printed or spoken) are under intense and often raucous debate from the halls of Congress, to university classrooms, to school board meetings. University presidents have been forced to resign, book talks have been cancelled, and professors have been let go for expressing political opinions not in line with their administrators’ and big donors. The controversy has roiled the Frankfurt Book Fair and disrupted APsA, its members accusing one another of prejudice and bias. So when I read that book talks by Nathan Thrall had been cancelled in London and L.A. because of his portrait of the Israel’s presence in the West Bank, I wanted to know why some wanted to limit his free speech.
Nathan Thrall is an American author, essayist, and journalist based in Jerusalem. His first book was The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, (New York: Henry Holt 2017). A Day in the Life of Abed Salama was named a best book of 2023 by over ten publications, including The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, Financial Times, Mother Jones, The New Republic and The Irish Times. I was surprised to find I didn’t agree with those assessments. In fact, I found myself quite disappointed in this book. But more on that later.
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama portrays a Palestinian father’s search for his five-year-old son Milad. Milad was on a school bus that collided with a semitrailer, setting the bus ablaze and scattering the bodies of children over the West Bank landscape. Abed gets word of the crash and rushes to the scene. The site is chaotic: some children have been taken to different hospitals, some are missing, others cannot be identified because they are so badly burned.
Setting off to find his son, Abed is confronted by bureaucratic obstacles because he is a Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the wall separating the West Bank from Israel, is delayed at military checkpoints, and doesn’t have appropriate papers that would allow him to enter Jerusalem where his son might be. During his quest to find Milad, Abed’s life and history become intertwined with those of other Palestinians and Jews. One understands the horror and grief of parents who must deal with injured or killed sons and daughters. But what might be an intensely moving account is less than that. While the events are gripping, the writing is not. It is flat reporting in detail the facts but without the language of deep feeling. The story is, furthermore, complicated by Thrall’s introducing 63 characters crammed into 217 pages of narration. In doing so, Thrall does convey a sense of tightness of Palestinian communities, the ways in which families are in crowded and confining spaces. Check points, roadblocks, segregated “sterile roads,” fences and walls hem Palestinians in. But the inclusion of so many characters dilutes the intensity of Abed’s experience as a desperate father, and my experience as a reader. The book does begin with a list of characters and their relation to one another, but it is impossible to hold so many characters in one’s head. I kept having to interrupt the flow of the narrative to revert back to the long list of characters with unfamiliar names. Nevertheless, the book made me sad for Amed and for the death of so many Israelis and Palestinians today. We may debate about the quality of Thrall’s book but banning him from opportunities to speak about it is a dangerous road to travel. It is one thing to disagree, another to censor.
I told my medical school classmate Dr. Ted Rynearson about Abed. He has spent his professional life healing those who have dealt with the unexpected loss of a loved one through suicide, murder, accident and war. Ted is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Washington’s Virginia Mason Medical Center and author of Retelling Violent Death (Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge, 2001.) His work with the survivors of violent loss brought him to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank more than once. After we talked, he sent me an entry from his journal, written in 2005:
Jabaliya, Gaza
With the late morning sun at our backs we hiked to a ridge top overlooking the field. In the welcomed coolness of a light breeze and the pungency of the freshly worked soil from the valley floor, we looked down the rows of green strawberry plants and vegetables stretching below us. Descending and then ascending toward the next ridgeline a half-mile from where we stood, the gentle symmetry of the rows abruptly ended at the base of the next ridge that bordered an Israeli settlement. Because the settlement was beyond the ridge, all we could see was its foreboding perimeter – a “no man’s” land of plowed field, a brown smear across its face, a high fenced barrier across its spine and a guarded observation tower at its highest point.
The Palestinian family who farmed this field - mother, father and fourteen children - lived in a tiny cinderblock house at the outskirts of Jabaliya, a city in North Gaza. When there was no answer at their door we walked to the field where they would be working.
Ibrahim, a Palestinian psychologist from the Gaza Community Mental Health Center, was counseling the family with weekly visits and had prepared them for my appearance – an American psychiatrist visiting the mental health center as a volunteer trainer to develop programs of support for family members after violent death. He and the family wanted my consultation in easing their bereavement.
The father greeted us and then left to gather family members from the field at a work shed where they ate and rested. Two daughters brought chairs, insisted that we sit and returned with trays – one with glasses of hot coffee and another with freshly washed strawberries. The mother appeared with her five-year-old son who helped steady her. She sat on a rug her husband spread at the base of a tree and leaned back against the trunk explaining to Ibrahim that she was still fatigued and unable to work the fields since the deaths of her children six weeks before.
The night of their deaths, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli settlement with rockets and mortar from the far edge of the family’s strawberry field. Within minutes an Israeli tank drove to the base of the observation tower and opened fire with rockets, cannon and machine gun straight across the field and into the village. The terrorists escaped, but five of the family’s children were killed when a rocket fired from the tank made a direct hit on the wall beside their house where they huddled for protection.
The mother needed to talk and needed to talk to me. Her eyes were fixed on mine through the compulsive retelling, interrupted only by Ibrahim’s translation. She reenacted the dying of her children in vivid detail so I would witness a recounting of that drama not only through her words, but visually witness the space where this had happened, where she pointed – the edge of the field, the base of the tower where the tank was parked, even struggling to her feet to point to the wall where the children had been killed.
The father insisted that Ibrahim and I examine rocket fragments gathered from the death site – another mute remnant of evidence verifying that this had really happened.
Four of the children had died immediately. They buried two, but two were so disintegrated that there was nothing left to bury. Weeks after the deaths, they were still finding body parts of children scattered across the field.
The fifth child, badly disfigured and burned, was transferred to a trauma hospital in Israel where he died. The Israelis would not allow her to visit him and now she waited for his body to be returned to Jabaliya so he could be buried beside his two brothers.
Ibrahim interrupted to ask how the family was adjusting.
The father said that they were beginning to cry because they were accepting the finality of the deaths, “...that they are gone forever.”
One of the daughters said they were having recurring nightmares of the attack, and the five-year-old son was wetting his bed and refused to separate from his parents, “..but he’s getting better.”
I asked to see pictures of the children when they were alive. The photographs passed between us and included a large poster produced by the local newspaper showing the smiling faces of the five children with their names and confirmation of their martyrdom.
As Ibrahim and I rose to say goodbye the mother insisted we stay because she had something else to tell me. She spoke at some length, again staring intently at me, but this time with feeling, her eyes brimming with tears, and as she finished they streamed down her face.
“She wants you to know that she does not want revenge for what happened….
She wants the killing to stop…
She says that all of us are farmers, not soldiers. The Israeli people are not soldiers either…
Our terrorists and their soldiers are the ones who are fighting, but it is the leaders who won’t stop it…
We have had enough. We need this to stop…
She hopes that Abbas and Sharon and Bush will make peace.
She wants the deaths of her five children to be the last deaths in this awful war…”
Ibrahim and I talked as we walked back to the car. He reminded me that Palestinians have a long tradition of dealing with wars, despotic leaders and violent death. But despite the thousands of years of trauma and grief that reverberated over these hills and fields, like other Palestinians this family stubbornly remained.
To me, the mother’s message went beyond that shared capacity for stoicism and solitary persistence, and beyond the all too familiar demands for retaliation and retribution. It was her admission of vulnerability that allowed her to empathize with the suffering of every family, Palestinian and Israeli. She wanted my witnessing to serve an enlivening connection through and beyond her tragedy – that the deaths of her children might promise the beginning of reconciliation with Israeli families who were also suffering – to stop the killing.
Those words written by Rynearson in 2005 might as well have been written today. They are more powerful than anything in Thrall’s book. Despite my reservations, however, Thrall’s work is a contribution to our understanding of how impossible life has become for most Palestinians. Another book could be written, as well, about how very difficult life has now become for Israelis. What the grieving Palestinian mother hopes for is what we all want: peace. How it will come about we do not yet know, but it cannot be bought at the price of the censorship of ideas or opinions expressed with civility. At the end of her book Precarious Life (London: Verso 2004), Judith Butler asks us "to invigorate the intellectual projects of critique, of questioning, of coming to understand the difficulties and demands of cultural translation and dissent, and to create a sense of the public in which oppositional voices are not feared, degraded and dismissed, but valued…” (p. 151). Her request is a most reasonable one.
~Dan Jacobs
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Prison Library Book Program | |
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Pictured is Jim Hickey, with a stack of books donated to the Prison Library Project by BPSI. Many interesting works on our "book sale” shelves in the Community Room go unpurchased. Rather than destroy them, we donate them. Jim, now retired and a serious chorister, has volunteered with the Prison Library Project for a year and a half: sorting, picking up, and delivering books to inmates in Massachusetts who can enjoy and learn from them. The organization prioritizes educational and self-help literature while it recognizes the value of literacy development through active engagement with many kinds of books. The PLP offers services to a wide range of communities within the prison system: librarians, chaplains, drug/alcohol recovery groups, domestic abuse and HIV/AIDS support groups, among others.
We at BPSI are happy to be able to continue donating useful books to this worthy organization.
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Archival Acquisition from Don Lipsitt, MD | |
BPSI has recently begun the process of acquiring books and archival materials from the family of our late member, Don Lipsitt, MD (pictured here). Some of these materials include teaching outlines and taped sessions from Michael Balint.
Lipsitt completed his psychoanalytic training and was a member of BPSI, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a past president of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine. The founder of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge and of two journals on consultation-liaison psychiatry, he was the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards for contributions to the field, including the Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award. To read more about Lipsitt, please click here.
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Gift from Salman Akhtar, MD | |
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At the APsA National Meeting that was held this past February, Salman Akhtar, MD, donated his ten volume Selected Papers to the BPSI Library.
Dr. Akhtar was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Immigrating to the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and pursued psychoanalytic training at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including several collections of his poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Dr. Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.
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We are deeply grateful to Deborah Choate, Jack Foehl, Ellen Goldberg, Mark Goldblatt, Dan Mollod, Malkah Notman, Rafael Ornstein, Dean Solomon, Rita Teusch, and Julie Watts for donating print journal issues to the library.
With funds established by Morton and Raisa Newman many years ago, we continue building our child analysis and neuropsychology collections, and our Gifford fund helps to purchase books on the history of psychoanalysis.
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