Division 39 Spring Meeting: https://division39springmeeting.net/
Friday, March 12th – 2:15pm-4p – A Reckoning with Internalized Oppression: Evolving Identity Formations Inside and Outside the Consulting Room
What happens when both psychoanalyst and patient deny aspects of their social identity and internalized racism/oppression, and how do these influence both treatment choices and dynamics? A diverse panel explores racial enactments resulting from the disavowal of their own racialized subjectivities and evolving sense of identity personally and professionally.
Presenters:
Donna Harris, MA, MSW, LCSW
Luis Ramirez, MSW, LCSW
Formulating Enactments of Intersectional Oppression Through the Lenses of a Queer Subjectivity
Susan J. Rios, MS, LCSW
From the “One Drop Rule” to the U.S. Census “One Box Only” Rule: Mixed-Raced Inter-Subjectivities in our American Life and in our Psychoanalytic Encounters
Discussant: Anton, Hart, PhD
Friday March 12, 2:15-4:00 – Forgiveness: Giving Up All Hope for a Better Past
This panel will address the effects of reparations and reconciliation, forgiving and forgetting, in individual trauma, sadistic violence, and social trauma. The presenters will use a multilevel approach through personal accounts and the intersection of race, gender, class, migration and religion to demonstrate the power of violence.
Presenters:
Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD: Are We to Consider Apologies as Naïve and Disingenuous or Can They Lessen Social Trauma and Lead to Forgiveness?
Veronica Csillag, LCSW: The Theater of the Psyche
Discussant:
Jane Hassinger, LCSW/DCSW
Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:15-4:00PM
Building Blocks: A Path Of Reckoning Transmitted Trauma and Restoring Attachment in Birth Mothers and Children in Foster Care
Building Blocks is a psychodynamic treatment for families in the child welfare system. To establish its effectiveness, research measures are
integrated into the intervention. We will reckon with the various forms of “data” – both clinical observations and research – to identify factors facilitating trust, healing and attachment in parent-child relationships.
Presenters:
Phyllis Cohen, PhD
Jill Bellinson, PhD
Jordan Bate, PhD
Ashley Golub, PsyD
Sunday, March 14th – 2:15p-4:00pm – Visions for the Future in Community Psychoanalysis
This panel is a response to Francisco Gonzalez’s keynote plea to stand up for social justice by abandoning our analytic identity and embrace the emergence of community psychoanalysis. Panelists will offer reflections, research and an experiential exercise to stimulate audience discussion.
Presenters:
Rossanna Echegoyen, LCSW: Unpacking Ourselves by Abandoning Our Analytic Identity in a Collective Unconscious
Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD: Critical Consciousness as attempts at linking: Bridging research on Attachment, Inequality and Community Psychoanalysis
Steven Knoblauch, PhD: The Door as a Community Treatment Model
Friday, March 19 – 3:15pm-5pm – Multiple Identities, Hidden Subjectivities, and the Biracial-Upwardly Mobile Psychoanalyst
Two biracial psychoanalysts from lower-working-class backgrounds explore their internalized object worlds of cultural identifications, both living in their “invisible ethnic skins.” An early careerist and senior analyst share family stories honoring their origins while revisiting their racialized subjectivities, examining dissociative processes, class/racial enactments, and normative multiplicities using clinical material.
Presenters:
Adam J. Rodriguez, PsyD
Disallowing Multiplicity: Internalized Hierarchies and Unformulated Bits of Self in a Poor Mixed- Race Kid
Susan Rios, MS, LCSW
Our Cultural Histories and Psychic Accommodations: La Manzana Doesn’t Fall From the Tree
Discussant:
Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD
Saturday, March 20 – 1:00p-2:00p – The White Supremacist Within
This paper explores the internalized white supremacist ideology of an African-American analyst and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. Using clinical examples of a same race dyad and a different race dyad, the author examines racialized transference/countertransference dynamics, evoked defenses such as projection,denial and avoidance, along with feelings of envy, shame and guilt.
Presenter:
Chanda Griffin, LCSW
Sunday, March 21, 2021 11:00-12:45PM
IS PASSION ENOUGH? THE DISLOCATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS FROM PUBLIC SECTOR MENTAL HEALTH
Psychoanalysis no longer plays a prominent role in the public sector as it once did. This roundtable will provide the audience with the opportunity to hear from and dialogue with analysts who have confronted the challenges associated with this issue from the perspectives of research, management, supervision, and training.
Moderator:
Larry Rosenberg, PhD
Presenters:
Amira Simha-Alpern, PhD
The “Stern Effect”: Undoing Prejudice Against Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Prejudice
Phyllis Cohen, PhD
The Challenges of Bringing an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Sensibility into a Foster Care Agency
Joshua Essery, PsyD
Whose Needs to be Reckoned with? Resonance and Dissonance with Psychoanalysis and Administration in Community Mental Health.
Richard Hansen, PhD, ABPP
A Psychoanalyst’s Reckoning: Although My Patients Are Thriving, My Profession is Dying
Tracy Prout, PhD
Our Future Depends on Empirical Research
Ionas Sapountzis, PhD
Are We Present Enough? Insisting on a Psychoanalytic Perspective in Schools
Ashley Golub, PsyD