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 psychoanalysis. 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- —Sigmund Freud 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. Photograph by 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 Margaret Mahler 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.