Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Hanns Sachs Library and Archives Newsletter FALL 2016 DIRECTOR OF From the Director Dan Jacobs, MD LIBRARY A library is not a static structure; it is akin have to think about a library 10 or 20 Dan Jacobs, MD to a living organism that needs to breathe, years from now. I hope the grow and develop. With that development Coordinating Committee and Trustees LIBRARIAN/ ARCHIVIST come challenges. How, for instance, do we will join in conversation with our Olga Umansky, MLS make obtaining information by a growing library committee and the LIBRARY/PROGRAM membership as inexpensive as possible membership in finding solutions to COORDINATOR while still paying the increasing cost of the challenges we face. Drew Brydon library services? The library will never be a With the start of the academic year, huge moneymaker for our organization, but the library would like to welcome back LIBRARY its presence enhances our reputation and its contribution to our intellectual life is BPSI members and candidates. We COMMITTEE extend our warm greetings to new James Barron, PhD invaluable. Despite the difficulty involved, we should continue to encourage learning students, fellows, guest members and Ellen Goldberg, PhD archival researchers. We are open Malkah Notman, MD by keeping library fees as low as possible. Another challenge is space: how do we 9:30am-9:30pm on Mon-Thu and Rita Teusch, PhD preserve the history of psychoanalytic 9:30am-5:00pm on Fri from beginning Shari Thurer, ScD thought while making available new ideas. of September through the end of Marcia Smith-Hutton, Physical space is limited, but the future of June. We have free Wi-Fi and many LICSW, BCD cozy spaces for your quiet reading. Steven Varga- psychoanalysis is not and its history grows Golovcsenko, MD daily. How can we best utilize the space in While in the building, you can always access the Psychoanalytic Electronic Anna Wolff, MD our beautiful home to keep abreast of an Publishing (PEP), current online ever changing field? Certainly, digitalizing journals and many valuable electronic MANAGING documents, using of PEP and interlibrary resources. As you come to BPSI this DIRECTOR loan program help, along with constant fall, please note the new exhibit of Carole Nathan, MBA reassessment of our holdings help. There may come a time, however, when we need beautiful artwork by BPSI members. FINANCIAL Paintings, photographs, and tapestries OFFICER to build more shelves in parts of our building or consider permanent off site are on display throughout the building Pharrel Wener storage for library materials. A third until the end of February, 2017. In our challenge is getting younger members to library, take time to admire the Old Souls, photographs of books by Vivien B O S T O N join the Library Committee so they can P S Y C H O A N A L Y T I C Goldman displayed on easels around S O C I E T Y A N D help us face the future. If you are interested I N S T I T U T E in what the library offers, join us and help the library table. Also view, the rare photograph of Sigmund Freud taken 141 Herrick Road shape our future. Newton, M A 02459 by Lewis Bertram in the late 1920s The Hanns Sach Library and Archives are and recently donated to our archives 6 1 7 · 2 6 6 · 0 9 5 3 in excellent shape now. We, nevertheless, by Jeremy Nahum, MD. HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 Meet the Author Series 2016-2017 Audio recordings of past book events are available authors. Numerous clinical examples demonstrate from BPSI Archives. contemporary psychoanalytic techniques and address heterosexuality, homosexuality, gender, This academic year started and perversion from a psychoanalytic perspective. with Axel Hoffer’s presentation Bringing On Monday, May 15, 2017, Steven Cooper will Meditation into Psychoanalysis: present The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Free Association, Meditation, Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis and Bion, in conjunction (Routledge, 2016). The book with his new book Freud explores the analyst’s and the Buddha: The Couch and the Cushion (Karnac, participation and resistance to 2015) on September 27. The author compared the helping patients hold some of role of the analyst and the Buddhist teacher of the most unsettling parts of meditation relating the psychoanalytic concepts of their experience. Cooper free association, the unconscious, transference and portrays the patient as an artist countertransference to the Buddhist principles of of sorts and the analyst as a impermanence, non-clinging (non-attachment), the form of psychic boundary hard-to-grasp concept of the “not-self”, and the artist. Just as the creative act of art involves the practice of meditation. capacity to transform pain and ruin into the depressive position, so the co-creation of the On Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017, Paul understanding of the patient’s mind through the Lynch will talk about Sexualities: mind of the analyst can lead to psychic Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives transformation. (Routledge, 2015), the book he co- edited with Alexandra Lemma. The Please remember to share your book and article volume includes a collection of publication news with the library. Writings by papers by internationally acclaimed BPSI members steadily enrich our collection! New Video Projects The Library Committee continues its initiative to interview authors about their recently published books. These conversations are posted to the BPSI blog and Facebook page as they become available. Current interviews feature authors Paul Ornstein and Stephanie Brody interviewed by Dan Jacobs, and Ilonka Venier Alexander interviewed by Shari Thurer. Some of BPSI’s popular programs are now filmed and are available for purchase as a DVD or for online streaming. Jerome Kagan’s lecture at the recent More public programs will be filmed this year. Childcare Conference (May 2016), Gerald Schneiderman’s presentation at the BPSI Members Check bpsi.org web site, like and follow Seminar 65 Years After World War II: A Family Secret @BostonPsychoanalytic on Facebook or contact (Oct 2012) and Anton O. Kris’s Academic Lecture [email protected] to learn more about our videos. Mourning as a Psychological Principal (Sep 2012) can be requested from the library and viewed on demand. HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 What Are We Reading? The Clinical Erik Erikson: A published. This includes notes with Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Method of Engagement and comments at the regular case conferences at Riggs Activation by Stephen Schlein, PhD during the years Erikson was there, letters and (Routledge, 2016). summaries he wrote describing some of his patients, and detailed direct personal notes of his treatment of Having worked with Erik a young man for several years. These session by Erikson in the publication of session notes are often illustrated with drawings his selected papers A Way of which Erikson did. Schlein describes the “emphasis Looking at Things, Steven Schlein became interested in he placed on the importance of the therapeutic getting Erikson to publish relationship and the very personal nature of his more of his psychotherapeutic encounters”. These notes permit a glimpse into work than had appeared publicly. Although Erikson Erikson’s thinking, his attention to and reflections achieved fame on the basis of his ideas and his about his own feelings in therapy, and the liveliness of biographical social historical work. the the process. They contain subtle and detailed psychoanalytic and psychiatric community knew observations of patients and his thoughts. It is a very relatively little about his actual clinical work. He was special experience having been given some view and reluctant to publish material on adult patients, potential insight into this process. although he did publish some of his work with ~Reviewed by Malkah Notman, MD children. He was recognized as a brilliant clinical teacher, an unusual and original thinker, and a major influence in psychoanalysis. The entire career of our member, Don Lipsitt, MD, Dr. Schlein was a student of Erikson at the Austen has been devoted to bringing Riggs Center, and got to know him better as a psychological, psychiatric, and collaborator. He has a positive and idealized view of psychoanalytic concepts to the Erikson as a teacher, mentor, and contributor to practice of medicine. In his new new approaches of psychoanalysis. In this book Dr. book, Foundations of Consultation- Schlein reviews central facts of Erikson’s life, and Liaison Psychiatry: The Bumpy Road to then describes some of the unusual aspects of Specialization (Routledge, 2016), he Erikson’s work with children detailed in his book has written a rich history of Toys and Reasons and in his papers about child Consultation-Liaison from its psychoanalysis. Schlein focusses on Erikson’s beginnings as psychosomatic contributions as well as the provocativeness of some medicine's foot soldier to its of his early remarks and thoughts as he sought to present sophisticated place. He gives Bradford develop his own approach. He reviews the historical Cannon his special role in the development of the importance of the creation of a unique interest in the life cycle and the integration of the societal homeostatic principles by which the body maintains matrix with ego psychology and a theory of control "minimizing risks of serious damage or death" interpersonal relationships into a psychoanalytic to the individual. Later on he discusses the approach. The project of writing about his clinical development of the role psychoanalytic ideas play in work was interrupted by Erikson‘s death, which understanding Hysteria. Finally there is a affected Schlein strongly. It was also made more sophisticated overview of the principles involved in difficult by the disappearance of some clinical contemporary diagnosis and treatment of material sent by Erikson to Riggs.