How Race Matters

Speakers:

Farhad Dalal, Ph.D.

Melanie Suchet, Ph.D.

Respondent:

Annabella Bushra, Ph.D.

Moderator:

Ruth Greer, PhD, LCSW

The conference will begin with a morning program entitled Race Matters which will consider race and racism in clinical work and everyday life. We encourage those interested in continued dialogue with our speakers and community to stay for lunch and an afternoon program entitled How Race Matters. The afternoon program will include small group discussion and conversation with and between our speakers in which the clinical implications of race matters will be taken up.

 Conference Schedule:

                   Registration                                 9:00-9:30 AM

                    Morning Program                         9:30-12:30 PM

                    Lunch                                          12:30-1:30 PM

                    Afternoon Program                      1:30-3:30 PM

Continuing Education Credit is available to Psychologists * and Social Workers** (pending approval). 3 hours for the morning program and 2 hours for the afternoon program or 5 hours for both programs.

 SPEAKERS

 Farhad Dalal, Ph.D. 

Supervisor and Training Group analyst, Institute of Group Analysis, London; Formerly Associate Fellow, University of Hertfordshire Business School; Founding Member, South Devon Psychotherapy and Counseling Service; Organizational consultant and practicing psychotherapist. Author of: Taking the Group Seriously (1998), which argues for the relational nature of human life; Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization (2002), which explores the hatred of others and the roots of racism. His forthcoming book, Thought Paralysis, is a critique of the thinking in support of the Equality Movements in general and the Celebrators of Diversity in particular.

Melanie Suchet, Ph.D. 

Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contributing Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Faculty Member, Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and private practice, New York City. Originator and co-editor: Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 3, dedicated to integrating political and social perspectives with psychoanalytic thinking and to introducing novel literary forms to psychoanalytic discourse. She is particularly interested in issues of otherness, sexuality, gender, race, class and culture.

RESPONDENT

Annabella Bushra, Ph.D.

Faculty, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, writes, and has a private practice as a psychologist/psychoanalyst in New York City. She is particularly interested in issues of diversity, immigration and the difficulties inherent in addressing otherness.

MODERATOR

Ruth Greer, Ph.D., LCSW

Faculty and Supervisor, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Co-Director , Couples Psychotherapy Training Program, WCSPP.  Former Co-Director, Adult Psychotherapy Training Program, WCSPP. Private practice in Rye, NY.

The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is Co-sponsoring this program with the Westchester Center for Psychological Education (WCPE).

*Psychologists:  CE credit is available for attending this program and paying a fee of $10 to the WCPE. The Westchester Center for Psychological Education is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists.   Westchester Center for Psychological Education maintains responsibility for the program.

**Social Workers:  CE credit is available for attending this program and paying a fee of $10 to the WCSPP. This program has been approved for 3 or 5  hours of CE credit by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and NY and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.

This conference will consider race and racism in clinical work and everyday life. Our speakers, in dialogue with our community, will address how race matters inform analytic therapy. Does race matter in therapeutic work, even when it does not emerge as an explicit focus of inquiry? What is meant by race? By racism? What individual and societal needs are implicated in racial identification, and why does racial identity take on self-definitional significance?

Learning Objectives: After attending this conference, participants should be able to: 1. Describe how race matters emerge and are significant in clinical work;2. Demonstrate knowledge of different definitions of race; 3. Explain ways of thinking about the relationship between race and racism.

Who should attend: Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, nurses, graduate students.

An informal meeting for those interested in the WCSPP Training Programs will be held during the lunch break.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Kenneth Barish, Ph.D.

Ruth Greer, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

Constance Haslett, Ph.D.

Eric Mendelsohn, Ph.D. (Chair)

Janet Shimer, L.C.S.W.

Michael Wald, Ph.D.