Co-sponsored by Houston Psychoanalytic Society, Austin Psychoanalytic, and Center for Psychoanalytic Studies
Private Film Screening
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Location
14 Pews
800 Aurora Street
Houston, TX 77009
Times
Doors open: 6:30pm Central Time
Film: 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Discussion + Q&A: 8:15-9:15pm
Please arrive a few minutes early. Doors open at 6:30pm and film begins at 7:00pm
How to Participate
Join in person in the Houston Heights
OR
Preview the film and join by Zoom for discussion + Q&A at 8:15pm
Registration Fee $25
No CME/CE credits awarded
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Your Mum and Dad
A Devastating Truth
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How can we speak our family secrets? How can we heal from generations of family trauma? And how can we mourn the losses that we never knew we lost?
Your Mum and Dad (2019), a film by Dutch director and European Academy Award nominee Klaartje Quirijns, carefully weaves together two narratives of tragedy, trauma, and attempts to heal. Providing a rare look inside the psychoanalytic consulting room, we see Michael Moskowitz’s sessions with Dr. Kirkland Vaughans (one of New York City’s few Black psychoanalysts) as Moskowitz (a psychoanalyst himself) attempts to work through the wounds wrought by the Holocaust, a taboo subject in his family growing up. Then, Quirijns creates links to her own family as she explores the impact of the tragic death of an older sister that she never knew, a sister whom no one ever spoke of but whose death shattered her family. Throughout the film, Dr. Vaughans helps the audience understand the internal workings of the mind and demonstrates how complicated it is to heal from such deep wounds, but also how it might be possible.
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In-Person
If you are in the Houston area, please join us in person at 14 Pews in the Heights for a screening and discussion with Kirkland Vaughans, PhD, Michael Moskowitz, PhD and Felecia Powell-Wiliams, EdD, LPC-S, RPT/S. With a 100-person seating capacity and free street parking, we hope you'll make the trip to join us in person.
View Remotely
If you would like to view from afar, you will receive a link to watch the film and may join our discussion at 8:15pm by Zoom. Viewing instructions will be sent immediately on registration.
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Kirkland Vaughans, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a Fellow — training and supervising analyst — and on the faculty of IPTAR, he is also Clinical Director and Supervisor at the Derner School of Psychology and teaches at the NYU Postdoctoral Program and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism, generational transmission of trauma among African Americans, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color, and is a subject of the documentary, Your Mum and Dad. He is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and a member of the Holmes Commission.
Michael Moskowitz, PhD is a training and supervising analyst at IPTAR and on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program. He is a Founding Member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, serves on the Holmes Commission, and is a North American representative to the Institutional Issues Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Michael was co-founder and CEO of Other Press, the Managing Director of Karnac books, and the Team Leader of the New Haven VA Vietnam Veterans Center. He has published in the areas of race, class and culture, psychoanalytic theory, and neuroscience. He was a co-producer of the film Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and an associate producer of Psychoanalysis in El Barrio. In 2000 he received the Gradiva award for his work in psychoanalytic publishing.
Felecia Powell-Williams, EdD, LPC-S, RPT/S
Felecia Powell-Williams is a native Houstonian, where she earned her degrees, Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Counseling. She completed her post graduate education at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, formerly known as Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, and recognized by the American Psychoanalytic Association as an adult, adolescent and child psychoanalyst. Dr. Powell-Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor- Supervisor, and also a Registered Play Therapist/Supervisor, who provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board. Along with maintaining her private practice, Felecia has volunteered multiple hours training clinicians from Baylor and University of Texas medical schools. She also teaches on a collegiate level, and provides consultation and professional training with many state and local agencies on recognizing the need of mental health services for children, adults, and families. Among her many roles at CFPS, she is currently a faculty member in the Adult and Child & Adolescent training programs, Chair of the Child Program, and board secretary. Felecia also holds board positions with the Alliance of Psychoanalytic Schools and Association of Child Psychoanalysis, along with other national mental health organizations.
IMAGE Image used with permission by Dartmouth Films
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