Meet the Author: Fred Busch, PhD

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Join Fred Busch PhD, for our next Meet the Author event with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.

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When & Where:

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7:30-9:00 PM, via Zoom

About the Book:

Building upon 50 years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods of working that can bring this about?

This book investigates the analytic relationship as a process of giving patients the freedom to think the unthinkable (to build representations) and change repeated patterns of action into the possibility of reflection. This entails careful examination of central psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, resistances, and the ethics of countertransference as a guide to a patient’s unconscious, in addition to newer ideas, such as the notion of the analyst as a memory keeper of patients’ lost objects. In its final part, the book presents observations on how analysts function as part of analytic organizations, and the various roles they take on to develop an “analytic identity”.

Continuing decades of significant theoretical work on clinical concepts, this book offers a unique perspective on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists can work effectively to achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients.

About the Author:

Fred Busch, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and has been invited to teach at many Institutes. He’s published eight books, and has close to 100 articles on psychoanalytic technique, along with many book reviews and chapters in books. His work has been translated into many languages, and he has been invited to present over 180 papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His latest book, published this year is called, How Does Analysis Cure? Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations, and Psychoanalysts. He is also the editor of Dear Candidate: Analysts From Around the World offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education and the Profession.

 

About the Moderator:

Dan Jacobs, MD, is a Supervising and Training Analyst at BPSI and former head of the Hanns Sachs Library and Archives. He is the author of over 40 publications, including a novel The Distance From Home. His most recent contribution was to a Library Committee sponsored collection of essays entitled Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender, which was published by Phoenix in January 2023. His play, Furious Improvisation written with his wife Susan Quinn is scheduled for an off-off Broadway opening in March of 2025.
 
 
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