News & Events
3/27/08
BGSP Featured on the front page of the Brookline Tab. "There’s that question at a party that both William Sharp or Joon Ho Lee pretty much dread — “So, what do you do?” “I say, ‘I’m studying psychoanalysis,’ and often the response is, ‘OK, nice meeting you!’” said Lee, a master’s candidate at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Washington Square. “Often, I just tell people that I’m studying psychology.” “It’s so true,” sighed Sharp, a doctoral student at the school. “Then it’s like, ‘So, are you analyzing me now?’” READ FULL ARTICLE
3/18/08
Faculty Member Contends With Psychologists in National Security Interrogations. Over the past several years the profession of psychology has engaged in vigorous debate over the proper role of psychologists in interrogations of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the secret CIA black sites. Stephen Soldz, BGSP faculty member, has been a leading figure in these debates. He has written extensively for online sites and blogs on the issue and has been quoted by a number of reporters and had numerous radio and television interviews on the topic. He has also contributed to several scholarly publications on the issue in such journals as Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, and Psychoanalytic Dialogs, and has several forthcoming book chapters on the topic. Recently, Dr. Soldz participated in a workshop on this issue at Harvard Law School with physicians, attorneys and human rights advocates; he is also featured in the latest issue of the Swedish Journal of Psychology. In March, he will be a featured speaker at the Midwest World Affairs Conference at the University of Nebraska, Kearney.
Dr. Soldz is an organizer and will be one of three speakers at a May 3rd forum on Torture and the American Psyche: Blurring the Boundary Between Healers and Interrogators being produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis, together with BGSP's Institute for the Study of violence, the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Physicians for Human Rights, Psychologists for Social Responsibility End Torture Action Committee, and the First Parish Unitarian Church in Brookline. Other speakers are Leonard Rubenstein, President of Physicians for Human Rights and former Iraq interrogator Eric Fair. The forum will be held at the Unitarian Church, 382 Walnut Street, Brookline, MA, 9:30 AM.
3/18/08
BGSP Faculty Present at Dublin Conference on Building a Psychoanalytic Community. The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy M.Sc. Program at Trinity College, Dublin, invited four BGSP faculty to come and present at a conference on "Building Our Psychoanalytic Community" on February 29-March 1, 2008. Participating BGSP faculty included Dr. June Bernstein, Dr. Ted Laquerica, Dr. John Madonna and Dr. Jane Snyder, each of whom gave a talk and ran workshops throughout the conference. The relationship between the two schools was built on a connection between Paul Shield, of Ireland, a member of the Trinity program training committee, and John Madonna of BGSP.
The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program in Dublin has been in existence for fifteen years and administrators are currently working on building their own extended community of faculty, graduates, colleagues and students. They sought input from BGSP on issues such as moving graduates into roles as training analysts and administrators, navigating academic and clinical regulatory bodies, and building a community feeling. Conference participants also became interested in modern psychoanalysis and emotional education.
3/17/08
Faculty Member Dr. Stephen Soldz Selected as Reviewer of the Year. The online transdisciplinary Journal of Research Practice has selected BGSP faculty member Stephen Soldz as a recipient of their shared Reviewer of the Year award for 2007. Dr. Soldz has been on the editorial board since the journal's founding.
3/17/08
School Based Program Expands to Serve Teachers and Parents. The collaborative efforts of BGSP and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy's school based program (SBP) have expanded this year to provide support for teachers and parents. William Sharp (BGSP) has presented to both the Marshfield Public School District and the Friends of the Hernandez School in Boston.
Teachers and Support staff in Marshfield Public School District signed up to attend two mini workshops entitled "Working with the Difficult Child" during an in-service. At the first workshop in January, participants asked about how transference can affect the students' readiness to learn and cases were presented from the classroom with ideas about how to address resistances to learning. The second workshop is scheduled for March 6th.
In Boston, teachers, paraprofessionals and parents from the Hernandez School were invited to participate in a workshop which included exercise in mind-body. Co-led by school therapist William Sharp and Yoga instructor Mimi Cromwell, members of the group heard about children's developmental needs and affect states that can influence school performance while learning yoga poses that can help facilitate readiness to learn. The talk was so well received, the pair has been asked to return for up to three more talks in the spring.
Plans for the 2008-2009 school year include providing monthly on-going teacher support groups and consultations as well as continued workshops for parents and support staff. If you are interested in supporting these efforts, contact William Sharp, Program Director at WSharp@bostoninstitute.org.
3/15/08
The 2008 Commencement Ceremonies will take place at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston on March 15th at 12:15 pm. Graduates of the One Year, Master’s, Certificate and Doctoral programs will be recognized.
Dr. Lucy Holmes, an NAAP and SMP certified psychoanalyst, will be the principle speaker. Dr. Holmes is president of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts, and is a member of the faculty at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Center for Group Studies in New York. She lectures widely on women and family issues and is the author of The Object Within: Pregnancy as a Developmental Milestone, The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development, and Women in Groups and Women’s Groups.
3/7/08
"Contact" at Gallery 1581 opening March 7th. Students at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis are organizing an art exhibition that will bring two distinct groups of students into a shared dialogue. The show will exhibit art student’s photographs alongside psychoanalytic “responses” created by current BGSP students. The responses will involve many different creative media, including: music, painting, writing, poetry, plant-life and drawing.
2/18/08
This semester BGSP’s Institute for the Study of Violence is offering a three credit course on the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of War. This course is designed to facilitate the recognition of unconscious motivations hidden underneath the cultural force of war. Through guided discussions, classroom presentations and assigned readings, students will learn about the symbolic meaning of the enemy, the character traits of nations and why we are attached to them, fanatic beliefs, warfare and destruction. Students will come to understand societal violence as collective psychopathology. This course will be co-taught by Dr. Stephen Soldz and Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg.
12/10/07
William Sharp, a BGSP doctoral candidate, spoke on NPR about dreams.
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11/28/07
Professor Stephen Soldz recently appeared on the Pinky Show discussing a psychoanalytic view of contemporary American culture and empire.
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