The Impact of a Junior Faculty Fellowship Award on Academic Advancement and Retention.

Purpose: Academic faculty experience barriers to career development and promotion. In 1996, Harvard Medical School (HMS) initiated an intramural junior faculty fellowship to address these obstacles. The authors sought to understand whether receiving a fellowship was associated with more rapid academic promotion and retention.

Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Barriers to Effective Treatment When Nothing Is the Matter.

Patients with symptoms that elude medical explanation are a perennial challenge to practicing physicians of all disciplines. Articles appear virtually monthly advising physicians how to care for them. Efforts at postgraduate education have attempted to ameliorate the situation but have shown limited or disappointing results at best.

Is There a War on Women in Psychoanalysis? The Disappearance of a Group of Women Leaders.

Some older members of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society remarked that in the 1950s and 1960s there was a group of prominent women analytic leaders at BPSI. They were training analysts, writers, and teachers active in the society and in the community. They were succeeded primarily by men.

Reflections on widowhood and its effects on the self.

Widowhood has not been written about extensively. Recent books in the mainstream press have focused on the experience of the acute loss. This paper describes the experience of widowhood of the author and of several other women after long marriages.

Transfer of care of psychotherapy patients: implications for psychiatry training.

Transfers of care occur routinely in medical training, but the transfer of psychotherapy patients has received relatively little attention. This article discusses important issues concerning these transfers, using case examples and findings from a survey of the experience of psychiatry residents transitioning psychotherapy patients. Residents have difficulty telling patients they are leaving and often delay doing so.