Learning to Speak Documentary Screening

This presentation consists of introductory remarks by Dr. Shapiro, followed by a 50-minute screening of "Learning to Speak," and then discussion with the audience members, Ms. Beck, and Dr. Shapiro.

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1 Session: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM ET

This session will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded.
Registration Deadline: March 30, 2026

Continuing Education credits are not offered for this course.

Registrants are expected to be able to attend all sessions in their entirety. Should your availability change, please contact the BPSI Team (team@bpsi.org) to remove your course registration and allow other interested participants to attend.

 

Learning to Speak Documentary Screening

This presentation consists of introductory remarks by Dr. Shapiro, followed by a 50-minute screening of "Learning to Speak," and then discussion with the audience members, Ms. Beck, and Dr. Shapiro. In the film, Ms. Beck provides candid insights on how years of difficult familial relationships led her to feelings of isolation and depression that resulted in self-harm and attempts to take her life. She details how initial forms of treatment that relied heavily on medications failed her and how a psychoanalytic approach enabled her to assume authority for her life and regain a voice that had previously been silenced.


Instructors

Edward R. Shapiro, MD

Edward R. Shapiro, MD, Psychoanalyst Member, BPSI; Medical Director/CEO Austen Riggs Center; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,  Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Shapiro is the author of numerous articles and books, including Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens (Phoenix, 2020).

Michele Beck, MFA

Michele Beck, MFA, is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work has been shown at venues including: Amazon Prime, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, Kassler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, ICA in London, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, Bronx Museum, Queens Museum and PS122 in NYC. She is a recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts as well as multiple residencies at Yaddo. She teaches video production at the New School in New York City and is in training to be a psychoanalyst.


This course is open to the public.

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$100 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$75 Early Bird (available until 03/20/2026)  Use Code at Checkout: EB2026LS

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 

Explorations in Mind: Community Education at BPSI is made possible by the generous support of BPSI Members and friends. To make a gift to BPSI, contact Carole Nathan (cnathan@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 x101),
go to www.bpsi.org, or send mail to BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459.

 
Program Administrator
Jackson Doty: jdoty@bpsi.org

Program Chairs
Natasha Lifton, PhD: natashalifton@gmail.com
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD: l-emanuel@northwestern.edu
 
 
Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Jackson Doty at jdoty@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459, does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin or handicap in the admissions to or administration of its educational programs, scholarship programs or employment.