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Relating Racially: Shifting Between We, They, and I Senses of Self - Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD (Live Webinar)
2024-25 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series
Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are currently showing considerable interest in, and concern over, the relevance of different forms of racism to psychological suffering and to the development of the field of psychoanalysis itself. This presentation aims to address gaps in current practice and clinical knowledge by reviewing recent approaches to the question of psychoanalysis and race. Stephens will foreground her own approach, using a combination of psychoanalytic theories of large group identity formation (Volkan), epidermalization (Fanon), and multiple self-states (Bromberg) to offer insights and knowledge for improving both psychoanalytic theory and practice. The presentation ends with a discussion of how a meaningful engagement with black feminist theory, the field that first theorized the intersectionality (Crenshaw) of our personal and social identities, would be useful for the development of psychoanalyst’s and psychotherapist’s ability to navigate complex issues around racial, cultural and ethnic identities in clinical settings.
Target Audience
√ Introductory √ Intermediate √ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- To demonstrate a deeper understanding of the historical roots and manifestations of large group identities, within the context of a traditional psychoanalytic focus on the singular individual psyche.
- To utilize this knowledge to identify the relationship between targets of externalization and large group identification processes, the “We—They” dynamics shaping subtle processes of bias and discrimination emergent in early subject formation.
- To apply this knowledge to adaptations of clinical technique, broadening their lines of inquiry and perception of intrapsychic and interpersonal racialized clinical dynamics.
Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology and a practicing psychoanalyst. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, and the founding and executive director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ). She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (Duke University Press, 2005) and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014). Recently she has published articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in such journals as JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
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Available Credit
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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- 1.50 APA
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.50 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
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- 1.50 ASWB-ACE
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