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Events Calendar

Clinical Series – Why is Change So Difficult?

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Clinical Series Psychoanalysis: Not What You Think, More Than You Can Imagine Psychoanalytic theory is a major contributor to the foundations of psychology, and many of its tenets are incorporated into twenty-first century study and treatment of extreme emotional suffering. But psychoanalysis is widely misunderstood. This is an exciting time for psychoanalysis, as “neuroscience objectively

Senior Talks: Film Screening of The Pharaohs

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Senior Talks: Film Screening of The Pharaohs Issues in Senior Group Living   Saturday May 11 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM   Details The Pharaohs is a short film that uses humor and drama to depict some real-life issues facing seniors today. Inspired by a true story, the film traces one woman’s journey as she

Addictions: A Perfect Storm?

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details A synthesis of evolutionary and psychoanalytic perspectives offers an understanding of how biological, psychological and technological factors have converged to fuel the current explosion of chemical and behavioral addictions. Why hasn’t our experience with addictive behaviors over the years (centuries!) enabled us to avoid this disaster? What are the psychological resistances to doing what

Film Discussion: Water, Trauma and Re-Birth in ROMA

BGSP 1581 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, United States

Details From its deceptively simple opening shot to its complex narrative weaving nostalgia, personal and social history, Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, 2014) conjures a moment from his own past that moves from autobiography to the poetic and the political as he re-visits the world of his childhood in 1970’s Mexico. Against a series of

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

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

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,