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The BPSI Community and Guests
Fellows, ATP Student Members, Candidate Members, Affiliate Scholars, Psychotherapist Members, Adjunct Members, Academic Members, Board Members, Psychoanalyst Members, and Partners
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BPSI Leadership Team
Daniel Mollod, MD, President
Catherine Kimble, MD, Executive Director
James Barron, PhD, Chair, Board of Trustees
Jack Foehl, PhD, President-Elect
Carole A. Nathan, MBA, Managing Director
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BPSI READS:
Open Conversations on Race, Diversity, and Otherness
Tuesday, January 5 - 7:00 pm
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“BPSI READS” is an initiative to facilitate regular conversations within BPSI, the larger psychoanalytic community, and the public on issues of Race, Diversity, and Otherness.
Thank you to everyone who has participated in BPSI READS this summer and fall. Please join us for the next BPSI READS:
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Tuesday, January 5th
7:00-8:00 pm
Special Guest: Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA
Paper: Anton Hart (2019): The Discriminatory Gesture:
A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Posttraumatic Reactions to
Incidents of Racial Discrimination,
Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26 (1), 5-24.
“I inevitably stumble in racialized moments…
…again and again, in the consulting room, the classroom, and in ordinary conversation. A theme emerges: Why might ‘small’ things that I say (or don’t say) matter so much sometimes? Especially when my intentions are good? I get responses that can be disconcerting. How can I understand why, sometimes, people I’d hope to connect with get so upset? Must these moments feel so dangerous, leading to a sense of needing to be careful, or worse, avoidant? How can post-traumatic stress reactions to racial moments, including those that seem to come by surprise, be more fully understood?"
Anton’s paper will be a launching point for taking up these questions, together. He proposes to describe the non-extraordinary racial event as the “Discriminatory Gesture” in order to emphasize its fluidity and pervasiveness as an interpersonal event. Being the subject of a discriminatory gesture represents a unique source of trauma, particularly because it derives its destructive power from its occurrence in a wider context of pervasive racism, white supremacy, and the historical context of slavery.
Dr. Anton Hart is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He has presented and consulted nationally and internationally, and since 2017 has consulted to BPSI on issues of race and the diversities. Dr. Hart is a Member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Hart teaches at multiple institutes and is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual, family and couple therapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.
We are pleased Anton will lead our conversation on January 5th - Please join us.
The January 5th BPSI READS Drop-in group is for members of the BPSI Community, and all interested guests.
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Dial by your location: +1 646 558 8656; Meeting ID: 938 5950 3422
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Curious about Training Opportunities at BPSI?
Please join us at 8:05pm by staying on the link after the program,
for an informal Q+A with members of the Training Outreach Committee.
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SAVE THE DATE!
Upcoming BPSI READS
Monday, February 22 7:00-8:00 pm
Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
With Bennett Simon, Roberta Apfel, and Deborah Choate
This BPSIREADS session will focus on Toni Morrison’s exploration of how race, acknowledged and unacknowledged, plays a role in the definition of the “American Character” as portrayed in canonical American literature, with its emphasis on masculinity, individualism, and “heading for the territories”. Though we recommend reading all of Playing in the Dark, (it is short and powerful) we will provide excerpts and will be discussing these in relation to Huckleberry Finn. We request you renew your acquaintance with Huck Finn if it was part of your past, and we will be recommending and providing a few chapters to think about in particular. The format will be that of a presentation followed by a whole group discussion.
Tuesday, April 6 – Celia Brickman, PhD “Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind”
Monday, May 17 – Kim Leary, PhD
June - tbd
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As part of BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment (Click here for Commitment Memo), the BPSI Resources Web Page intends to make readily available psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary scholarship resources on, Race, Diversity and Otherness, for colleagues and the public. The site is regularly updated with new readings and links suggested by colleagues and the public – click below!
BPSI Resources:
On Race, Diversity, and Otherness
Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Voices
Thank you to everyone who has shared experiences, questions, and ideas for how BPSI can fulfill our commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We welcome your feedback and input, and contributions to BPSI’s new and ongoing initiatives. You may contribute ideas here.
We hope to see you for the next BPSI READS.
Jim, Catherine, Dan, Jack, and Carole
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