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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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BPSI READS with Special Guest: Kris Yi, PhD, PsyD
Open Conversations on Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness
Monday, May 8th at 7:30-8:30 pm
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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 for a
special two-part BPSI READS series on Asian Identity:
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Part I
Special Special Guest: Kris Yi, PhD, PsyD
Monday, May 8th, 2023
7:30-8:30 pm
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Reading: Yi, Kris (2023), Asian American experience: The illusion of inclusion and the Model Minority stereotype, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:2, 99-113
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As Dr. Yi summarizes in her paper: The stereotype of Model Minority is often applied to Asian Americans, whose educational and economic achievements are held up as a sign of successful inclusion into American society. Yet the deadly anti-Asian attacks following the coronavirus pandemic have shattered this illusion of inclusion. Using trauma theories, Dr. Yi explores Asian Americans’ belief in the American Dream, alignment with whiteness, and the illusion of inclusion afforded by the Model Minority stereotype. In particular, Dr. Yi examines how the illusion of inclusion has obscured recognition of an Asian fetish, the sexualized objectification of Asian women and feminization of Asian men. Clinical examples illustrate the workings of racialized stereotypes and mutual dissociation of racial traumas in Asian therapist and Asian patient dyads. Finally, Dr. Yi adds a plea for Asian American psychoanalysts and therapists to write and speak about their experiences from their own frame of reference for fuller recognition of Asian American subjectivity.
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In this BPSI READS 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 guest:
Kris Yi, PhD, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena, California. A graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis of Los Angeles, she is currently a member of the teaching and supervising faculty there as well as the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Tustin, California. She has served in a number of leadership roles within the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPSS) of the American Psychological Association. Currently, she serves as a co-chairperson for its International Relations Committee. She has presented widely on culture, race in psychoanalysis and published work in journals such as Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
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We are honored that Dr. Yi will be our guest for part one
of a special two-part BPSI READS series on Asian Identity
on May 8th - Please join us.
There is no fee for this program, however we ask that you consider
making a gift at whatever level you can afford to support this
BPSI READS and our ongoing work.
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Save the Date for Part II
A Special BPSI READS
responding to the Arts Installation:
with BPSI Hosts: Diane O'Donoghue, PhD &
Peiwei Li, PhD, HSP
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
7:30-8:30 pm
Registration coming soon!
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This BPSI READS 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.
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 future BPSI READS, BPSI RESOURCES, and your feedback, contributions, and participation in BPSI’s ongoing work towards 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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