Taryn Crosby, LCSW is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is formerly the Behavioral Health Clinical Coordinator at Callen-Lorde, a community health center that provides care for LGBTQ+ people living with HIV/AIDS, where she also provided supervision and therapy services. She is in full-time private practice providing psychotherapy to individuals and partners, supervision and consultation and organization consultation around issues of race, sexuality and trauma-informed care.
Mutually Inclusive: Race & Queerness in Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Taryn Crosby, LCSW
Dates: Mondays May 6, May 13, May 20 2024
Times: 7:00-8:30 PM Eastern Time
CE: 4.5
Sessions: 3
Location: Zoom
Cost: $180 and candidates $120 (Proof of Institute affiliation required.)
Course Description and Overview:
In recent years, an increasing number of psychoanalytic institutes are talking more about the clinical implications of race, identifying intersectionality as a useful framework but often failing to fully integrate the role of gender in the racialized self. And with increased mainstream and political attention on transgender and queer folks, there are more dynamic conversations happening around gender and sexuality, but race’s role in these experiences is often an afterthought. Why do we continue to think about race and queerness separately when gender and sexuality are racialized experiences?
Through case studies and interactive dialogue, we will explore the intricacies and intersections of gender, sexuality and race and their impact on intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics. We will examine the racialized self in the gender-sexuality matrix and how race affects, and is affected by, the expression and legibility of gender. Using an interdisciplinary lens, this course will bridge the sociopolitical understanding of race and queerness with the clinical implications of working with race and queerness in the consulting room.
This seminar will emphasize moving beyond an acceptance framework to one that understands race and queerness as dynamic and inextricably linked. We will push beyond “getting it right” when engaging with queer and racial material and work towards enhancing and expanding clinical listening for the racial and gender-sexuality material that everyone experiences.
