By Dr. Stephen Soldz Psychoanalysis and empirical research have not always been on friendly terms. Recent decades, however, have seen an increase in psychoanalytically-informed research. One area where this research [Read More]
By Dr. Joan White “Qigong is to pull out the suffering at its root” – Dr. Yang Yang, Director of The Center for Taiji and QiGong Studies My daughter refers [Read More]
By Dr. Stephen Soldz The great neurologist Oliver Sacks, who died last weekend, was a great friend of psychoanalysis. In this 2011 interview he describes his own psychoanalysis, which at [Read More]
Faculty Member Dr. Stephen Soldz took on the American Psychological Association, confronting social denial and co-leading the movement to remove psychologists from abusive interrogations. For over nine years, BGSP faculty [Read More]
By Wes Alwan, former BGSP student Source: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-deus-in-ex-machina/ While the “deus” is missing from the title of Alex Garland’s incredible film Ex Machina, it figures prominently in its reflection upon the nature [Read More]
By Dr. Mary Shepherd Life is a race. Out of death. Against death. Toward death. Every move forward carries with it a weight of undoing. Life is heavy-hearted. A billion sperm [Read More]
When asked to write an entry on the BGSP blog site about the film American Sniper memories of my time in the service, unexpectedly, came back to me. I recalled [Read More]
By Dr. William Sharp Psychoanalys is the talking cure and talking helps! Yet, we analysts are not always good at talking about our work so that those interested can learn [Read More]
Reading Ahmed Fayek’s “The Crisis in Psychoanalysis”, I was arrested by his comment that psychoanalysis and religion have in common that both are based on an insight. His comment is [Read More]
Congratulations to BGSP Faculty member Dr. Stephen Soldz on his recent mention in the New York Times article, “Psychologists to Review Role in Detainee Interrogations”. [Read More]
