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Events Calendar

How to Have an Awful Marriage

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details We have come far since Jay Haley, founder of Strategic Family Therapy, wrote a useful, “unself-help” article on this topic decades ago. Building on his paper, tonight’s talk adds current research about the science of marriage and love. The presenter will further highlight psychoanalytic and cultural perspectives. With a 53% divorce rate in the

Joker: Antihero or Mirror?

Details Join this discussion as we explore what makes this movie disturbing for so many to watch. Is it the violence? Is it the rise of an antihero? Or is it something more insidious that is being revealed to us about our own nature? Presenters: Wes Alwan, M.A. is a writer, cohost of The Partially Examined

Freeing the Creative Process

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details Panel presentation of various clinical and theoretical considerations to writing. This panel examines, through case study, theories and personal experience, how the creative process is freed and what interferes with that freedom. It explores questions such as: why do we hold creative impulses in check? Why are writing and painting and other artistic expressions

Spring 2020 Open House

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

BGSP can give your career a competitive edge. At our open house we can help you take the next step. Join us Wednesday, March 4th from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Meet faculty and alumni Learn more about our Master's and Doctoral Programs Master’s in Mental Health Counseling Learn how our program prepares you for licensure Find

Now What? Thoughts on Choosing a Degree That’s Right for You

Do you want to work in mental health, but are confused about all the options? What is the difference between a social worker, counselor, psychoanalyst, or psychologist? How do you choose a degree that fits your goals? Join us March 9, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time for a one-hour webinar and you will learn: Differences between types of mental health

Psychoanalysis from the Couch to the Community

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Psychoanalysis from the Couch to the Community Postponed   Details A psychoanalytical community-based intervention model was born out of a need to address secondary trauma and to work through personal and systemic resistances. While it's been believed that psychoanalysis belongs to the couch, this event presents the emergence of a psychoanalytically-informed approach to addressing homelessness,

Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details This presentation explores the technical implications of a conception of the patient as an ethical subject, attempting to tackle the question—how do we integrate an exploratory analytic method with a therapeutic stance aimed at cultivating the patient’s own ethical responsiveness towards Self and Other? The speaker reviews the contemporary psychoanalytic literature on ethical intersubjectivity,

Don’t Kiss That Frog! A Modern Psychoanalytic Road Map to 21st Century Dating

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details How do we build a happy relationship in the world the way it really is these days?  Is it actually more difficult than ever to find a compatible partner?  Is it all in our heads?  What is love anyway and how is it different from infatuation? From sex? Why do most relationships not last

What to Do with a Bachelor’s in Psychology

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

What to Do with a Bachelor’s in Psychology Now available online. Watch the webinar.   Details This workshop is geared to the undergraduate psychology major who wants to explore options for employment, graduate school and long-term careers.  This event addresses questions such as: How can you make the most out of gap years? What if

Coming Together | Coming Apart: Authority and Leadership in a Fragmenting World

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details: The conference is designed to provide members, together with administrative staff and consultants, an opportunity to create and study a temporary institution, giving participants the chance to experience, examine, and understand systemic processes – overt and covert, conscious and unconscious –  encountered in the exercise of authority, leadership and power. The learning method is experiential,