Book Purchase - History of Women at BPSI: The First 70 Years

About the Book

Malkah Notman’s engaging monograph, with its in biographical sketches and numerous photos, introduces us to the women who were central to BPSI’s success over its first seven decades. She takes many women analysts out of the shadows and gives them their rightful place in BPSI’s history. Malkah describes their and her own struggles to find a voice in a predominantly male organization. She describes the onset of the Women’s Movement in the 70’s and relates it to changes at BPSI. Notman offers a clear understanding of the paths woman took to leadership in the organization.  Hers is a story that needed to be told and is one to be cherished now and by future generations.

About the Author

Malkah Notman, MD, is a BPSI Library Committee member and has been a practicing psychoanalyst for over 50 years. Before training at BPSI, Notman attended the University of Chicago and then Boston University Medical School. Notman has taught at Harvard Medical School and served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital from 1991-1995. She is a noted contributor to psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature. As a Training and Supervising Analyst and President of BPSI from 1999-2001, she is invaluable source of information about our society and institute.