Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Hanns Sachs Library and Archives Newsletter

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 MARCH 2004

DIRECTOR OF From the Director Dan Jacobs, MD LIBRARY “A man will turn over half a library to accompanied by a catalogue identifying Dan Jacobs, MD make one book.” and giving biographical information —Samuel Johnson about the analysts photographed. I hope

you all will come to the opening recep- DIRECTOR OF There’s good news that, thankfully, fol- tion on Friday, March 26 from 6-8 P.M. ARCHIVES lows the bad. While we lost our librarian The event not only honors our senior Vivien Goldman last fall, we have found colleagues, but Dr. Palmer who gave so Sanford Gifford, MD in Steve Morandi an excellent replace- generously of his time and talent to make ment. Steve, a graduate student in ar- this event possible. ADMINISTRATIVE chaeology, has been working hard to keep our library up to date. He is available We have set a target date, spring 2005, DIRECTOR every day but Friday to help candidates for the publication of a book of photo- Diana Nugent and members who want to write a book graphs of Edward Bibring that are part of or read one. our archives. The book was made possi- ble, in part, by a grant from the Founda- LIBRARIAN The heavy snows this winter caused an- tion of the American Psychoanalytic As- Steve Morandi other flood in the library, drenching our sociation and by contributions from newly installed carpet. We’ve been as- friends and members of BPSI. It is not sured, however, that the leak in the roof too late to make a contribution and add LIBRARY is now fully repaired, thanks to the persis- your name to the list of sponsors that will COMMITTEE tent efforts of Diana Nugent and Bill be acknowledged in print. Dr. William Ackerly Ackerly. Our “Meet the Author” series continues Dr. Murray Cohen Other library events of interest on May 10 with a discussion by Dr. Lewis Dr. Renée Gelman Kirshner of his book Having a Life: Self Dr. Morton Newman The receipt of papers from the Putnam Pathology After Lacan. (see page 4) Clinic (see Sanford Gifford’s article in Ms. Rae Silberger this issue) is an unexpected and wonder- Drs. Anna Wolff and Morton Newman Dr. Anna Wolff ful gift to our archives. They do present have been reviewing our collection of the challenge of organizing them in a way books on child analysis and neuroscience that protects confidentiality; but they also and will be making recommendations for grant us a wonderful opportunity for fu- additional purchases. Should you have ture research. B O S T O N any suggestions as to what we should P S Y C H O A N A L Y T I C own in these areas, please contact them. S O C I E T Y A N D I N S T I T U T E The photographic exhibition “The Face of Experience: Portraits of Senior Ana- After a long, cold winter, it’s almost 15 C o m m o n w e a l t h A v e n u e lysts” is being sponsored by your library spring. We can open the library windows B o s t o n, M A 0 2 1 1 5 and archives. The photographs by Dr. soon and welcome you with a warm Allen Palmer will become part of our breeze, a smile, and new books for your 6 1 7 · 2 6 6 · 0 9 5 3 archival collection. The exhibit will be reading pleasure. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 Greetings Steve Morandi

Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to all Menashi in the library a few years ago. library visitors. As the new librarian, I can be found in BPSI’s third floor Hanns Sachs Library at Does an archaeologist feel out of place here? The my desk or digging out references in the stacks or answer is a resounding no. As most of you are archives, and I am eager to aware, Freud drew many parallels between archae- meet all of you. Don’t be ology and . afraid to ask for help or “[The analyst’s] task is to make out what Several quotes from his simply to introduce your- has been forgotten from the traces it has work, such as the one high- self — I am slowly putting left behind, or more correctly, to con- lighted here, indicate not the many new faces and struct it. . .[like] an archaeologist’s exca- only his fondness for the names together, and vation of some dwelling-place that has field of archaeology, but his sooner or later I will have been destroyed or buried. . .” recognition of the similari- them sorted out! ties in approach to the sub- — ject matter in each field of I am, in fact, an archaeolo- Constructions in Analysis (1937) study. gist finishing up a Ph.D. at Boston University. I have done research and Finally, I want to say that while I am here to help all several excavations in Mexico and Belize, studying of you in your research, I hope to learn from you as Caption describing picture or graphic. the ancient Maya civilization that thrived in much well. Based on the kindness and generosity shown of the region for thousands of years. Technically, I by those I have met already, I am sure my stay here am not new to the staff of BPSI, as I assisted Ann will be a happy and fruitful one.

Photographic Exhibit: The Face of Experience The Hanns Sachs Library and Archives is proud to The exhibit consists of 33 individual black-and- announce the opening of the photographic exhibit white framed portraits of BPSI’s senior analysts, “The Face of Experience: displayed in the second

Portraits of Senior Ana- and third floor seminar lysts” on Friday, March 26. rooms of the building. The photographs were taken by Dr. Allen Palmer, An opening reception will and represent a truly dedi- be held at BPSI on Fri- cated group of individuals day, March 26 from 6:00- to which many owe a great 8:00 P.M. Subsequent viewing hours will be by debt of gratitude. Photographby Palmer Dr. Allen appointment during the In this exhibit, Dr. Palmer, week, Monday through himself an analyst, has Friday 10:00 A.M. - 3:00 brought a long-time inter- P.M. The exhibit is spon- est in photography into sored by the Hanns Sachs the psychoanalytic realm. Library and Archives. In his own words, he Thanks also to Dr. Dan states the idea behind the Jacobs and Dr. Renée project — that through Dr. Arthur R. Kravits Gelman, who personally photographs he could contributed toward this “capture some essence of a person from the outside exhibition. Please come and join us on March 26 in instead of exploring his or her inner world”. celebrating BPSI’s senior analysts. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 In the Archives Sanford Gifford, MD

James Jackson Putnam various reasons, including wartime shortages of per- Children’s Center Records sonnel. Its aims were primarily the treatment of pre- school and very young children, as well as long-term The transfer of the Put- observations of healthy children. A well-baby clinic nam Childrens' Center was directed by T. Berry Brazleton. A house in Rox- records from Dr. Janet bury, at 244 Townsend Street, was chosen in a work- Brown's garage to our ing-class, racially mixed neighborhood in order to archives has been com- include a daycare program for the local community. pleted. They are installed in our attic, occupying the Dr. Anni Bergman of New York, an eminent child same four filing-cabinets analyst who has collaborated with vacated by the Ives and Manny Furer on autistic children, has made sev- Hendrick Archives, and eral visits to Boston and shown a film on two se- we already have a follow- verely regressed children, who were treated from age James Jackson Putnam up note from Dr. Brown 4-5 to their mid-thirties, as successful professional on one of the children in the longitudinal study. A women and mothers of normal children. This docu- small exhibit on the history of the Putnam Chil- mentary film was edited from decades of films, and drens’ Center is now on illustrates the kind of observations that can be ob- display in the third floor tained from our Childrens' Center records. Dr. Berg- case outside the library. man will donate a copy of this film for our film li- brary. The James Jackson Put- nam Children’s Center was founded in 1943 by Elvin Semrad Project Marian Cabot Putnam, MD, and named in honor We have been continuing our Elvin Semrad project, of her father, Boston’s with the collaboration of Dr. Max Day and David first psychoanalyst. Mowbley, LICSW. Besides the interviews with col- Marian Putnam was leagues Dr. Day and I have already obtained, Mr. Marian Putnam trained as a pediatrician, Mowbley has been working his way through the 50- and she had postponed odd reel-to-reel tapes of clinical conferences that Dr. her psychoanalytic education until her mother’s Semrad conducted during the 1960s and early 1970s, death, out of consid- borrowing 4-5 tapes at a time, listening with ancient eration for her equipment and selecting interesting sessions to be mother’s objections transcribed for ordinary cassettes. His current find is to analysis. the memorial for Dr. Semrad on November 13, 1976, which will soon be available in our film library. The Children’s Cen- ter was an innova- tion in a city with Edward Bibring Book Project more than its share of traditional institu- The Edward Bibring Book Project continues to tions for care of move along. We have spoken with the German pub- children. Returning Beata Rank lisher Hans Jurgen Wirth of Psychosozial Verlag who from her analysis in assured us that the production of the book is on Vienna, Dr. Putnam chose Mrs. Beata Rank as her schedule. Our purchase of a new psychoanalytic bio- co-director. Plans for a residential center for emo- graphical dictionary will help to provide information tionally disturbed children were abandoned for that will accompany the photos in the book. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 Meet the Author: Lewis A. Kirshner, MD The following abstract of the book is excerpted from The rists—D. W. Winnicott, , Arnold Mod- Analytic Press ell, and André Green. What is it about “having a life” - which is to say, Lewis A. Kirshner, MD is Associate Professor of about having a sense of separate existence as a sub- Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has taught ject or self—that is usually taken for granted but is as Affiliate Professor at the Centre de Recherche en so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, in- Psychologie at the Université de Lyon. A Training deed, in most of us especially at difficult times? In and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psycholoanalytic Having a Life: Self Pathology After Lacan, Lewis Institute and Society and a faculty member of the Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis, Dr. of departure for a thoughtful meditation on the Kirshner has twice received the Outstanding Teacher conceptual problems and clinical manifestations of Award from the Harvard South Shore Medical Train- self pathology. ing Program. Beginning with the case of Margaret Little, ana- Come join the discussion of Lewis Kirshner’s new lyzed by D. W. Winnicott, and proceeding to ex- book Having a Life: Self Pathology After Lacan on May tended case presentations from his own practice, 10 at BPSI, and take the opportunity to meet the au- Kirshner weaves together his avowedly American thor. A reception at 7:45 P.M. will be followed by a reading of Lacan with the understanding of self discussion of the book at 8:15 P.M. and a book sign- pathology offered by an influential coterie of theo- ing at 9:30 P.M.

In the Library: Newman Fund Books Steve Morandi

The Hanns Sachs Library is actively looking to pur- Rodman, R. (2003). Winnicott: Life and Work. chase books on child psychoanalysis and neurosci- ence. We are able to keep our collection of books Schore, A. (2003). Affect Dysregulation and Dis- in these areas of study up to date through funds orders of the Self. generously donated by Dr. Morton and Raisa Schore, A. (2003). Affect Regulation and the Re- Newman. Books on child psychoanalysis can be pair of the Self. found in our Suzanne Taets van Amerongen Me- morial Library of Child Psychoanalysis on BPSI’s Squire, L. , and D. Schacter (eds.). (2002). Neuro- second floor. psychology of Memory (3rd edition). The following books are currently being consid- Trowell, J., and A. Etchegoyen. (2001). The Impor- ered for purchase: tance of Fathera: A Psychoanalytic Re- evaluation. Kandel, E. (1996). Essentials of Neural Science.

Kandel, E., J. Schwartz, and T. Jessell. (2000). Principles of Neural Science (4th edition). If any of you have other child psychoanalysis or neu- roscience books in mind for the library to purchase, Kanter, J. (2004). Face to Face with Children: please contact Dr Newman, Dr. Anna Wolff, or me. The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott.

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 5 In the Library: PEP Archive Steve Morandi

The PEP Archive PEP Archive Books

The latest version of the Psychoanalytic Electronic The electronic full text of the following books is available: Publishing (PEP) Archive arrived and has been installed on the patron computer in the library. Anzieu, Didier. (1986). Freud's Self Analysis. (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.118). The PEP Archive is a searchable database contain- Bion, W. R. (1959). Experiences in groups. ing the complete text of several major psychoana- Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning from Experience. lytic journals and books. For those who have not Bion, W.R. (1963). Elements of Psycho-Analysis. used the PEP archive before, this technology is a Bion, W. R. (1965) Transformations - Changes from Learning to powerful research tool that can save hours of time Growth. in library searches. Full-text articles or book sec- Bion, W.R. (1970) Attention and Interpretation. tions can be quickly found and printed from this Fairbairn, W. R. D. (1954). An object-relations theory of the per- sonality. database. If you are unfamiliar with the PEP Ar- King, Pearl & Steiner, Riccardo {Ed}, (1991). The Freud - chive and would like to learn how to use it (or if Klein controversies 1941-1945. (New Library of Psychoanalysis you need a quick refresher course) please ask and I no 11). would be happy to show you. Klein, Melanie - The Writings of Vol. 2, The psy- choanalysis of children. (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.22). Caption describing picture or graphic. Klein, Melanie - The Writings of Melanie Klein Vol. 3, Envy and PEP Archive Journals gratitude and other works, 1946 - 1963. (International Psychoana- lytical Library, No.104). The latest PEP Archive contains the full text of the Klein, Melanie - The Writings of Melanie Klein Vol. 4, The narra- following 8 journals from inception through 2000: tive of child analysis.(International Psychoanalytical Library, No.55). Contemporary Psychoanalysis Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J. (1973). The Language of Psycho- analysis. (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.94). The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Matte-Blanco, Ignacio (1988).Thinking, feeling, and being: The International Review of Psychoanalysis clinical reflections on the fundamental antinomy of human beings and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic world. (The New Library of psychoanalysis, No 5). Association Rosenfeld, Herbert (1987). Impasse and interpretation: therapeu- Psychoanalytic Dialogues tic and anti - therapeutic factors in the psychoanalytic treatment of psy- Psychoanalytic Inquiry chotic, borderline and neurotic patients. (The New Library of psy- Psychoanalytic Quarterly choanalysis, No.1) Spence, D. (1982). Narrative Truth and Historical Truth. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Stern, D.N. (1985). The Interpersonal World of the Iinfant: A view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology. Winnicott, D.W. Playing and Reality. Also, the full text of 3 new journals has been Winnicott, D.W. (1965). The Maturational Processes and the added, from inception through 2000: Facilitating Environment. Studies in the Theory of Emotional Develop- ment. 1965 (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.64). Winnicott, D.W. (1978). The Piggle. An Account of the Psycho- Annual of Psychoanalysis analytic Treatment of a Little Girl. Penguin Education. Psychoanalytic Psychology (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.107). Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review Winnicott, D.W. The Spontaneus Gesture. Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott. Rodman, F. Robert (ed.). 1987 Winnicott, D.W. (1971) Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psy- Paper versions of these journals from 2001 to the chiatry. 410p (International Psychoanalytical Library, No. 87). Winnicott, D.W. (1975). Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis. present are available in the library stacks. (International Psychoanalytical Library, No.100). Winnicott, D.W. (1986). Holding and Interpretations: Fragments of an Analysis. Other Books, 1989. (International Psychoana- lytical Library, No. 115).

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 6 In the Library: Other News Steve Morandi

Book Sale New Books

Over 200 cloth and paperback books, covering a Briggs, A. (2002). Surviving Space: Papers on In- wide range of topics within psychoanalysis, are fant Observation. available for purchase at BPSI. All books are being sold at a flat rate of $5 each, so come by and take a Craib, I. (1989). Psychoanbalysis and Social The- look before they are gone! Among the books are ory. first editions and classics already owned by the li- brary, as well as others weeded from our collection de Mijolla, A. (2002). Dictionaire International de to make space. Bookshelves containing these la Psychanalyse (a psychoanalytic biographical dic- books are located on the basement floor outside tionary in French). the kitchen area, and in the library on the third floor. Be sure to take a peek at these shelves every Gehrie, M. J., ed. (2003). Explorations in Psycho- now and then, as they will be updated periodically therapy, V. 19: Progress in . with new arrivals. Horowitz, M. J. (1989). Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy. GiftsCaption & Donationsdescribing picture or graphic. Meissner, W. W. (1997) Ignatius von Loyola: Psy- Sanford Gifford has donated two important books chogramm eines Heiligen ( in German). to the archive: Meissner, W. W. (2000). The Cultic Origins of Prince, Morton. (1909). My Life as a Dissociated Christianity. Personality. Modell, A. (2003). Imagination and the Meaning- Prince, Morton. (1914). The Unconscious: The ful Brain. Fundamentals of Human Personality Normal and Abnormal. Roazen, P. (2000). Political Theory and the Psy- chology of the Unconscious. Dan Jacobs has donated several books for the Fiction and Psychoanalysis section of the library: Shevrin, H., ed. (2003). Subliminal Explorations of Perception, Dreams, and Fantasies: The Pio- Bloom, A. (1993). Come to Me. neering Contribtions of Charles Fisher. Murdoch, I. (2003) A Severed Head. Shem, S. (1985). Fine. Steiner, R. ((2000). “It is a New Kind of Dias- Shem, S. (1997). Mount Misery. pora”: Explorations of the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis. Muriel Pokross graciously donated the book On- ward: Memoirs of David R. Pokross to the li- Tessman, L. H. (2003). The Analyst’s Analyst brary. Within.

The library would like to give a special thanks for Thompson, C. (2003). Evolution and Develop- the generosity of Dr. Alan Pollock, who donated ment: Psychoanalysis. many books, adding greatly to our collection of psychoanalytic texts.