_2024-25 Spring Seminar Series_Crosby

Course Description and Overview: Despite more dynamic conversations happening in our discipline around gender and sexuality, too often race’s role in these experiences is an afterthought. And when discussing the clinical implications of race, while acknowledging intersectionality as a useful framework, gender and sexuality fail to be fully integrated into the conversation. Why separate race from queerness when gender and sexuality are racialized experiences?

This seminar explores the mutual construction of race, gender and sexuality, how they are interpreted and embodied, and ways to think about how these constructions are alive in intrapsychic and interpersonal processes in the consulting room.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn to:
1. Describe how gender and sexuality can be understood as racialized identities and experiences
2. Apply an interdisciplinary lens to describe the construction of race, gender and sexuality in the western social imagination
3. Describe two theories of the constitution of gender-sexuality
4. Demonstrate increased capacity to explore gender, sexuality and race as “dynamic and unfolding” processes in a psychotherapeutic setting

Taryn Crosby, LCSW, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose clinical work has always revolved queerness, racialized experiences, and the people whose lives unfold at their intersection. Taryn is in full-time private practice working with individuals and partners, offering clinical supervision, and organization consultation on race, gender, sexuality, and trauma-informed care. She completed the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis One Year Program: Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World.