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Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Hanns Sachs Library and Archives Newsletter SUMMER 2019 DIRECTOR OF From the Director Dan Jacobs, MD LIBRARY The Library Committee remains grateful to all September I will interview Fred Bush about Dan Jacobs, MD who have donated books, journals, and archival his new book The Analyst’s Reveries). We material, to our library. We appreciate, as well, send you our Library Newsletter in which LIBRARIAN/ the support of the entire membership whose important books reviews such as those ARCHIVIST dues go to help maintain and enlarge our provided in this issue by Library Committee Olga Umansky, MLIS collections. We, in turn, try to give back to you. members, Ellen Goldberg and Rita Teusch, LIBRARY/PROGRAM We give back through the services that Olga expand our knowledge. Join us in making COORDINATOR Umansky, our librarian, provides by finding our library even better by suggesting book Drew Brydon, MLIS books, articles and archival materials for anyone and journal purchases, by helping to EVENING LIBRARY who requests them. We give back by providing identify unrecognized persons in our ASSISTANT stimulating Meet the Author programs, by the photographic archives, by returning books continued video recording of the Kravitz you have borrowed, and by continuing to Jessica Hardin Award recipients, our senior members, and make use of our library for study, research BPSI authors that you can view. (This and reflection. LIBRARY COMMITTEE New Books and Your Gifts James Barron, PhD Our library has been preparing for the new Solomon, Monty Stambler, Rita Teusch, and Ellen Goldberg, PhD academic year. We always cherish faculty Julie Watts for donating their journals to the Malkah Notman, MD recommendations and encourage members to library. Also greatly appreciated are recent Rita Teusch, PhD suggest new titles. Click here to see the library donations of books by Paola Contreras and Shari Thurer, ScD catalog list of 2019 acquisitions. Don’t hesitate Carolyn Gombosi. The archival gift of John Marcia Smith-Hutton, to ask for the librarian’s assistance when you Martin-Joy is precious (see p. 4). With funds LICSW, BCD are looking for your class readings! We generously established by Morton and Raisa Steven Varga- continue receiving your generous donations of Newman, we continue building our child Golovcsenko, MD books, journals, and archival materials. We are development, infant research, and deeply grateful to Michael Caplan, Deborah neuropsychology collections. Our Gifford Choate, Mark Goldblatt, Dan Jacobs, Stephen fund helps to purchase books on the history MANAGING Kerzner, Frances Lang, Malkah Notman, Dean of psychoanalysis. DIRECTOR Carole Nathan, MBA Anna Ornstein’s Interview—Kravitz Award Series Anna Ornstein, MD, is the 2018 Kravitz Award winner in recognition of a lifetime B O S T O N of her dedication to teaching about the P S Y C H O A N A L Y T I C Holocaust. Her conversation with Library S O C I E T Y A N D I N S T I T U T E Committee Member, Steven Varga- Golovcsenko, MD, was recorded in 141 Herrick Road Brookline, MA, on August 21, 2019. Newton, M A 02459 Click on the image or follow this link to watch the video. 6 1 7 · 2 6 6 · 0 9 5 3 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 Meet the Author Series Dan Jacobs, MD, a BPSI memoirs of 2019. Joan Wheelis, Training and Supervising MD, is a Training and Analyst and Director of our Supervising Analyst at the Library, will be interviewed by Boston Psychoanalytic Society Shari Thurer about his new and Institute and an Assistant novel The Distance from Home Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (IPBooks, 2019) on Mon, Sep at Harvard Medical School on 23, 2019 at 7:30-9:30 pm. the clinical faculty at both Massachusetts General Hospital For Hannah Avery, unmarried and McLean Hospital. She is the and 37, the future looks dim. founder and director of Two Left by her lover, disparaged by Brattle Center and has a private her boss, she wonders whether practice in Cambridge, MA. Joan she can ever be at home in the world. When she joins Wheelis is the author of several book reviews and friends for a trek in Nepal, she finds herself dealing with articles on psychoanalytic treatment and DBT, and one their precarious marriages while she tries to figure out of the editors, with Joseph Shay, of Odysseys in her own future. A former lover is on the trip and eager to Psychotherapy (Ardent Media, 2002). resume their relationship. Also in the group is a psychiatrist who is on the verge leaving his marriage for an affair with a patient. Left behind by her friends when she falls ill, Hannah returns to Kathmandu in the Book Events Scheduled for 2020-2021: company of her former lover and a Sherpa guide. While recovering, she torn by her love for two men, one she Steven Ablon, MD, will read poetry from his new knows and one whose life and political views frighten book Dinner in the Garden on Tue, Oct 6, 2020. her. A lengthy review of the novel will be published in the next issue of American Imago. Space is limited, don’t John Martin-Joy, MD, is scheduled to talk about his forget to register. book Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Diane O'Donoghue, PhD, will Trump (Cambridge University Press, in press) on Mon, speak about her book On Jan 11, 2020. Dangerous Ground: Freud's Visual Cultures of the Unconscious on Tue, Nancy Chodorow, PhD, will discuss The Psychoanalytic Feb 4, 2020. In the final years of Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent the 19th century, Sigmund Freud Tradition (Routledge, 2019) on Tue, May 4, 2021. began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role Book Sale and Redonation that his encounters with antiquities, images of ancient Our staff used the summer to finish sorting through architecture, paintings, and illustrated books played in books from our off-site storage. More English language that process. Diane O’Donoghue discusses the ways in titles ended up on the Book Sale shelves in the which material phenomena profoundly informed Freud’s Community Room. All books are sold at the bargain decisions about what would, and would not, constitute the workings of an inner life. price of $1 each. We accept cash, checks, and online payments. Leave the money with Olga, Drew, or Joan Wheelis, MD, is planning to discuss her new Jessica. memoir The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten on Mon, May Rita Teusch, PhD, helped us research a list of German 4, 2020. Crafted from slivers of reminiscence and reflection, Joan Wheelis’s beautifully written memoir libraries that may want to take our donation of over 200 explores the intricacies of attachment and the perils of volumes of German books and periodicals from love and inevitable loss. The New York Times has recently personal libraries of BPSI early members. We are reviewed and shortlisted Wheelis’s book for the best excited at the prospect of finding a new home for these treasures. HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 In Memoriam Dr. Wolff’s book reviews written for the library newsletter are listed below and posted online (follow the links below to read): Wolff, A.K. (2016). Review of “Foundations of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry: The Bumpy Road to Specialization” by Don Lipsitt, MD. Routledge, 2016, 314pp. Library Newsletter, Fall 2016, p.3. Wolff, A.K (2015). Review of “Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk” by Matthew von Unwerth. Riverhead, 2005, 256pp. Library Newsletter, Summer 2015, p. 2. Wolff, A.K (2015). Review of A Girl’s Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, and The Yale Child Study Center” by Linda Mayes and Stephen Lassonde, eds. Yale University Press, 2014, 328pp. Library Newsletter, Summer 2015, p. 7. Wolff, A.K (2013). Review of “Lectures in Medical Psychology; an Introduction to the Care of Patients” by Grete Anna Kris Wolff, 1931-2019—photograph by Allen Palmer L. Bibring and Ralph J. Kahana. New York: International Press, Inc., 1968, 305pp. Library Newsletter, Fall 2013, We are tremendously saddened by the loss of our p. 7. colleague, friend, and devoted Library Committee member, Dr. Anna Kris Wolff. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1931, Dr. Wolff grew up in New York City and graduated from the Fieldston School in NYC in 1949, from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1953, and from the BPSI Projects and Research Harvard Medical School in 1957. A psychiatrist with a special interest in working with children, she started her The Library Committee initiated two publication professional career at the Putnam Children Center and was projects: Malkah Notman, MD, is researching and involved in longitudinal studies of atypical children. For writing a monograph on first women psychoanalysts and many years she taught in the child psychiatry residency BPSI female candidates. Many of our early female programs at the Beth Israel and Massachusetts General members either came from Europe or were trained in Hospitals. She was a BPSI Training and Supervising psychoanalysis in Europe. One of Dr. Notman’s Analyst for several decades. As a member of the Library discoveries was that the first American to be primarily or Committee for nearly twenty years, she reviewed and only trained at BPSI was Eveoleen Rexford, a child recommended books, worked on BPSI historic exhibits, analyst. Shari Thurer, ScD, has been interviewing researched and wrote biographies of BPSI’s early members about the history of changing attitudes toward members, assessed rare books, and participated in various homosexuality at BPSI and in the larger psychoanalytic archival research projects.