Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Hanns Sachs Library and Archives Newsletter SUMMER 2018 DIRECTOR OF From the Director Dan Jacobs, MD LIBRARY Dan Jacobs, MD We have experienced irreparable losses: but their contributions remain. They Chrysa Prestia, a promising candidate, are embodied in our library, used by Robert Gardner, a valued teacher, Chrysa, enriched by the writings of Bob LIBRARIAN/ ARCHIVIST supervisor and writer, Raisa Newman, a and Ana-Maria, and by the significant long-time BPSI supporter. Ana-Maria contributions of Raisa and her husband Olga Umansky, MLS Rizzuto, an important contributor to our Mort. Our vibrant library and archives LIBRARY/PROGRAM COORDINATOR psychoanalytic community, has returned to will continue to make manifest the Argentina. These colleagues will be missed, many contributions of our members. Drew Brydon, MLS EVENING LIBRARY ASSISTANT Kravitz Award Interviews Jessica Hardin The Arthur R. Kravitz Award for Drs. Apfel and Simon received the Community Action and Humanitarian Arthur R. Kravitz Award for their LIBRARY Contributions was established in 2008, for influential and committed work with COMMITTEE our 75th anniversary, to recognize members the mental health of children of war, James Barron, PhD of BPSI who have provided noteworthy Physicians for Human Rights, and Ellen Goldberg, PhD psychoanalytically-informed service to our many other local and international Malkah Notman, MD broader community. The Kravitz Award initiatives. Read p. 2 to learn more Rita Teusch, PhD Committee is starting a series of video about their recent donation to BPSI’s interviews with past award winners. The Archives. Stay tuned for more Shari Thurer, ScD Library Committee is helping to coordinate interviews with other Kravitz Award Marcia Smith-Hutton, LICSW, BCD the project. The first interview is featuring winners. Steven Varga- the award recipients of 2009, Roberta Apfel, Golovcsenko, MD MD, and Bennett Simon, MD, interviewed The Library Committee continues to Anna Wolff, MD by Ann Katz, EdD, on May 9, 2018 about facilitate recordings of interviews with their work with children of war. Follow the our senior analysts for “The Voice of link to watch. Experience” series. The latest release MANAGING was Axel Hoffer’s interview with Ana- DIRECTOR Maria Rizzuto recorded in the library Carole Nathan, MBA on Sep 15, 2017. We are also planning to record more conversations with BPSI authors. Please contact our B O S T O N library, if you want to be involved in P S Y C H O A N A L Y T I C S O C I E T Y A N D these video projects. I N S T I T U T E 141 Herrick Road Newton, M A 02459 6 1 7 · 2 6 6 · 0 9 5 3 HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 Meet the Author Series 2018-2019 On Tuesday, Oct intrapsychic dynamics in the treatment process 2, 2018, Cordelia with different populations. Her books The Analyst's Schmidt-Hellerau, Analyst Within (2003) and Children of Parting PhD, will talk about her Parents (1978) remain most popular among our new book Driven to Survive: readers. Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis (IPA Books, Lawrence J. Brown, PhD, will discuss his new 2018). book Transformational Processes and Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present “Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau Moment (Routledge, 2018) on Mon, Jan 28, 2019 has given us a work of deep at 7:30 pm. In this new work, Brown offers a scholarship and original contemporary perspective on how the mind thought. Fully engrossing and transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional forceful in presentation, it is a bold and necessary reworking experience that arises unconsciously in the here- of Freudian drive theory. Her new formulations will reshape and-now of the clinical hour. He surveys the our thinking and our way of listening. ” developments in theory and practice that follow from Freud's original observations and traces this ~ Dan Jacobs, MD, Director of the Library evolution from its conception to contemporary analytic field theory. The author emphasizes that When: SPECIAL RECEPTION - 7pm these unconscious transformational processes DISCUSSION - 8pm occur spontaneously, in the blink of an eye BOOK SIGNING - 9pm through the "unconscious work" in which the analyst and patient are engaged. Where: BPSI Library. Click here to register. Stephanie Brody, PsyD, and Frances Arnold, PLEASE NOTE: the reception on Oct 2 will also PhD, are scheduled to talk about their new celebrate Lora Tessman's 90th birthday. Dr. book Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women: Desire, Tessman is a renowned psychoanalyst with a long Ambition and Leadership (in press) on Mon, May standing interest in comparing nuances of 20, 2019 at 7:30pm. Summer Projects We use the quiet days of summer to catch up on en route to study Classics at Brown University. archival projects, evaluate what we have off-site, and Drew Brydon and Olga Umansky are planning make exciting plans for the new academic year. more trips to BPSI's off-site storage facility to go Our summer assistant, Effi-Anna Holston, cataloged through remaining unprocessed records. Drew several boxes of recently donated books (see the list has recently added new administrative materials to on p. 7-9) and helped Drew to organize upcoming the collection of BPSI Historic Files. Last year we class readings. She also processed our new "Children also brought back photographs, audio and video in War" collection of drawings and papers donated by tapes, as well as previously unknown Hampstead Roberta Apfel and Bennett Simon last spring. In Clinic files. Olga is organizing and reviewing these 1991, Drs. Apfel and Simon started interviewing two materials with Ava Bry Penman, PhD, our groups of Israeli and Palestinian 8-year old children member who trained at Hampstead in the late and then met with them annually for ten years. An 1960s. BPSI Archives already hold the Israeli art teacher Malka Haas has kept her studio Hampstead Nursery Records from 1931-1965. A open for children during wars, collected their art few years ago, we were fortunate to acquire Joan work and has sent notes on copies of children's Tewkesbury's audio reels and transcripts of drawings. Some of the drawings, photographs, and interviews with the Hampstead staff dating back commentary will be displayed in the library next fall. to 1976. The newly discovered papers span the Effi is a graduate of the Newton South High School period of 1967-1971. HANNS SACHS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 In Memoriam Raisa (Kemler) Paul H. Arkema, MD, a Member since 1983, Newman, the wife of passed away on June 17, 2018. In 1988 he was our Member, Dr. awarded our Deutsch Prize for his paper, Bonding Morton B. Newman for in the Families of Borderline Patients (BPSI Archives 63 years, passed away on holds an audio recording of this paper May 28, 2018. Raisa was presentation - contact [email protected] to request a generous patron of our access). Dr. Arkema graduated from Princeton and child analysis and infant the Medical School of the University of research book collection. For over a decade, we have Pennsylvania. He trained in psychiatry at been able to purchase new books with the fund Massachusetts Mental Health Center and was a established by Dr. and Mrs. Newman in memory of Fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at their son Mark Aron Newman. Raisa graduated from McLean Hospital. He practiced adult, adolescent, Radcliffe College in 1954, earned three Masters and child psychiatry at Westwood Lodge from degrees, and had been working as an AIDS social 1973 until its closing in 2017, where he was known worker from the start of the epidemic. Her legacy for his insightful, gentle care of patients lives on in our library. hospitalized with mental illness. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Boston University M. Robert Gardner, MD, an Adjunct BPSI Medical School, and was recognized by the Member, beloved teacher and supervisor, passed away American Psychiatric Association with its Roeske on June 11, 2018. He was trained at the Boston Certificate for Excellence in Medical School Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) and Education. worked at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Harvard Medical School (where he started a new psychiatric Stanley Cavell, PhD, an Affiliate Scholar training program), and the Harvard University Health Member, passed away on June 19, 2018. Professor Services. Bob Gardner was stationed in San Antonio Cavell was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1951-1952 during the Korean War as a captain and was known for his gift to connect philosophy in the Air Force. He was a Training and Supervising with movies, plays, literature and everyday life. He Analyst at BPSI until the founding of the is a nationally recognized author of 18 books, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England (PINE) in including Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy 1975. His letters about the split are included in one of of Remarriage, The Senses of Walden, The Claim of our archival collections. James Barron, PhD, wrote Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, about these materials in the 2015 library newsletter Must We Mean What We Say?, Disowning Knowledge: (see p. 3-6). Gardner is the author of several In Seven Plays of Shakespeare, and many others. He important books: Self-Inquiry, Hidden Questions, Clinical first studied music at Berkeley and was accepted at Musings, On Trying to Teach, and On Trying to Paint. He the Juilliard School as a composition major, but also wrote a book about Paris and lectured extensively eventually discovered his passion for philosophy, about Vincent van earning a PhD at Harvard, where he returned to Gogh (see more on teach philosophy in 1963. In 1992, he received a p.