Board of Directors
Lawrence Brown
Dr. Brown is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI) in both Child and Adult psychoanalysis and is a supervising child analyst there. He is also on the faculty of BPSI and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is on the Editorial Board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and is founding member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies. He was Co-Chair of the Bion in Boston International Conference held in 2009 and also co-chaired the Bion in Marrakech meeting in 2013. His book, Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives, was published in 2011 and he also co-edited two other recent books He has another book in progress, Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Technique of Transformations to be published by IPA Publications and Karnac. He is the author of many papers dealing with such topics as the Oedipus complex, trauma, countertransference dreams, the analytic setting, aspects of Bion’s work, and autistic spectrum disorders in children. His paper, “The Capacity to Tell a Joke: Reflections from Work with Asperger’s Children,” was published in the IJP in 2016.
Howard B. Levine
Howard B. Levine, is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21 st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).
Rodrigo Barahona
Rodrigo Barahona, Psya. D., is a faculty member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a faculty member and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the Book Review Editor for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. Rodrigo is a fellow of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is on the editorial boards of that journal, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of several book reviews, essays and book chapters on Latin American psychoanalysis, the work of Wilfred Bion, and post-Bionian Field Theory. Rodrigo has a private psychoanalytic practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Jack Foehl
Jack Foehl is Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and is Supervisor and Faculty Member at Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and at Harvard Medical School. He is Clinical Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Assistant Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and is an Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Jack did his undergraduate and doctoral work at Duquesne University, a center for existential phenomenological psychology and philosophy. Jack writes in the areas of phenomenology and psychoanalysis addressing issues of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and psychoanalytic process in the analytic field, drawing from the traditions of Object Relations, Bion, Interpersonal and Relational psychoanalysis. He works in private practice in Brookline, MA.
Christopher Lovett
Karen Roos
Karen Roos is a psychoanalyst practicing in Brookline Massachusetts. A board member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2010, she is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and a supervising analyst and faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She offers consultation and supervision with a particular interest in the work of Wilfred Bion, unrepresented mental states and the hard-to-reach patient.
David Power
David G. Power is a founding director of the The Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is Past President, Supervisory and Teaching Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and on the teaching faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is co-editor with Howard Levine of Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self (Karnac, 2017), and is an Editorial Reader for the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation/supervision in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dolan Power
Dolan Power, PhD is a founding member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies. She is a Past President, Supervisory and Teaching Analyst, at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and on the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She was awarded the Francis Tustin Memorial Prize in 2011 for her paper “The Use of the Analyst as an Autistic Shape”, which was published in 2016 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, consultation and supervision in Cambridge, Massachusetts.