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The BPSI Community and Friends |
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BPSI Leadership Team
Jack Foehl, PhD, President
Catherine Kimble, MD, Executive Director
Holly Housman, LICSW, Chair, Board of Trustees
Donna Fromberg, PsyD, President-Elect
Carole A. Nathan, MBA, Managing Director
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Please join the next BPSI READS:
Open Conversations on Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness
Tuesday, January 24th - 7:00-8:00 pm
With Special Guests: Carnella Gordon-Brown, LCSW; Natasha Holmes, PsyD; Elizabeth Kita, PhD, LCSW and Lynne Layton, PhD
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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, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness. Thank you to everyone who has participated thus far.
We invite you and your guests to please join us, to engage in conversation at the next BPSI READS:
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Special Guests: Carnella Gordon-Brown, LCSW; Natasha Holmes, PsyD; Elizabeth Kita, PhD, LCSW and Lynne Layton, PhD
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
7:00-8:00 pm
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Reading: Gordon-Brown, C., Holmes, N., Kita, B. and Layton, L. (2023). Psychoanalytic spaces, implicated places. In: R. Kabasakalian-McKay & D. Mark (Eds). Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
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We invite all to join:
This compelling discourse between authors who are socially committed psychoanalytic clinicians offers a deep and personal reflection on the harm caused by decontextualizing the social and racial out of our experience in Psychoanalytic Institutes. Building on the perspective that while, as Black and White women, they have been positioned differently and unequally within white dominated spaces, the authors describe both the consequences of unreflected-upon racism in psychoanalytic spaces and the possibilities of a better, more honest future for psychoanalysis.
Please bring your voice to engage in this critical dialogue on race and racism in psychoanalytic spaces, and the possibilities for the future of our field,
at the next BPSI READS on January 24th.
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In this BPSIREADS evening, we look forward to open conversation to deepen the dialogue about Race, Equity, and Diversity in psychoanalysis. We are honored to welcome our special guests:
Carnella Gordon-Brown, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a black-woman feminist, a great-great-great-grandaughter of escaped Africans who fought in the US Civil War for Lincoln and the preservation of the Union for the promise of their freedom and a better life. That she has an independent clinical practice is a precious gift, rooted in the deep wisdom and relational work experiences shared with the generous and resilient consumers of community mental health.
Natasha Holmes, PsyD is a licensed psychologist who works from a psychoanalytically and trauma-informed black feminist and womanist perspective while integrating cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral theories. She is also founder and CEO of And Still We Rise, LLC, a mental health company located in Massachusetts and Washington State that is dedicated to dismantling oppressive systems, liberating marginalized people, and providing culturally affirming psychotherapy, consultation and life-coaching services.
Elizabeth (Beth) Kita, PhD, LCSW is a clinical social worker in public/private practice in San Francisco, California. In her private practice, she works primarily with people contending with the effects of complex post-traumatic stress and vicarious traumatization; her work in a public clinic is with people who have returned to the community following lengthy periods of incarceration. She obtained her MSW from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Smith College, School for Social Work. Beth teaches in the MSW program at UC Berkeley and is co-chair of the Coalition for Clinical Social Work at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She thinks, writes, presents, and consults on the intersections of race/racism, trauma, violence, incarceration, and psychodynamic social work praxis in the United States.
Lynne Layton, PhD is a member of MIP where she has taught and supervised, and she has taught social psychoanalysis at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She was co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and is Past President of Section IX (Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility) of Division 39, APA. She is founder of Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice. Among her many publications, she is the author of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes, winner of the 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis.
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This BPSIREADS is open to the public. We invite members of the BPSI Community, friends, and all members of the larger community to join in conversation.
Please feel free to forward this invitation.
There is no required fee: Rather, we ask that you please offer a gift at whatever level you can afford to support this BPSIREADS and our ongoing work.
As part of BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment, (Click here for Commitment Memo), we have created the BPSI Resources web page, that intends to make readily available psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary scholarship resources on, Race, Equity, Diversity and Otherness for colleagues and the public. We welcome all recommendations for this site, a public offering that is updated regularly with new readings and resources. We invite you to please see what is new: BPSI Resources - On Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness; Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Voices (linked here).
Thank you, to all who have shared your experiences, questions, and ideas for how BPSI can continue to fulfill our commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We welcome your ideas, including for future BPSI READS, BPSI RESOURCES, and your feedback, contributions, and participation in BPSI’s ongoing work towards to the future of an inclusive and diverse psychoanalysis. Thank you. You may contribute ideas here.
We hope to see you at this next BPSI READS evening.
Jack, Catherine, Holly, Donna, and Carole
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