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The ICP Task Force against Racism and Homophobia invites you to our Zoom Film Series: engaging race, difference, and otherness through film

<h3>The ICP Task Force against Racism and Homophobia invites you to our Zoom Film Series: engaging race, difference, and otherness through film</h3>Taking an in-depth look at race, difference, and otherness as well as our own practice of othering presents a challenge for contemporary psychoanalysis. These five films confront us with a view of the lives outside of white, heteronormative perspectives to offer us a focused discussion about what these films capture in us. We’ll watch all five films over Zoom, allowing us to come together and share our thoughts and reactions during the film. The moderated discussion that follows will focus our attention on specific themes from each film, creating space to share our individual experiences with each other.<h3>Everything Everywhere All at Once </h3>Sunday, March 5, 2023 6-9:30pm PSTConsidered a landmark in Asian American cinema, The New York Times calls Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) &quot;a bittersweet domestic drama, a marital comedy, a story of immigrant striving, and a hurt-filled ballad of mother-daughter love.&quot;  Michelle Yeoh, whose fame rose in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, plays a Chinese American and immigrant mother and owner of a run-down laundromat who the IRS is auditing while she attempts to divorce her husband.  Every decision she makes enters her into parallel universes of possibilities in this cross-genre film that mashes up absurdist science fiction, comedy, animation, and martial arts.  Rolling Stone Magazine calls Yeoh&#x27;s performance a kind of &quot;dramatic gravitas of a woman held down by her unmet potential.&quot;  Themes to be discussed include the existential quandary of individual choice vis-a-vis absurdism of chaos, systems of race, capital, and governmentality, and what the Washington Post calls Asian-pessimism, a take on Afro-pessimism, &quot;which holds that Black lives are endlessly inflected and informed by anti-Black animosity and experiences of pain and loss.&quot;  How these themes play out differently for Asian Americans in contemporary settings and how psychoanalysis might examine unconscious dynamics of self, family, and society will be discussed. Discussion to be facilitated by Nat Newton, PhD, RPS and Carrie Atikune, PsyD.Nat Newton, PhD, RPS is a cultural anthropologist and clinical research candidate at ICP. Her anthropological work has won three national awards, including a Fullbright for her work with Vietnamese lesbians and human rights in Saigon. She has lectured, taught and led community organizing efforts in Asian and Asian American communities at Yale University, UC Irvine, CSU Fullerton, Scripps College, and on Sanoili Kolhatar’s “Uprising” on KPFK Radio 90.7.Carrie Atikune, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. In her practice, Carrie works primarily with young adults and people from BIPOC and LGBTQ communities and has a particular interest in the Asian American experience and working with Asian American patients. <h3>Divided We Fall</h3>Sunday, April 23, 2023 6-9:30pm PDTDivided We Fall is a critically acclaimed documentary film on hate crimes in the aftermath of 9/11. Told through the stories of Sikh Americans, the film offers vital historical context to the current crisis of hate and nationalism in the U.S. — and how we can change it through the ethic of Revolutionary Love.Discussion to be faciliated by Victoria Gutierrez-Kovner, Psy.D., LCSW and Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D.Victoria Gutierrez-Kovner, Psy.D., LCSW, is a bilingual/bicultural psychotherapist/psychoanalyst, originally from Cuba. Her expertise is in the treatment of trauma and working cross-culturally with children, adolescents and adults. She received her MSW from the University of Southern California (USC) and her Psy.D. from the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles (ICP-LA). Dr. Gutierrez-Kovner has presented locally and nationally on sexual abuse and cultural diversity. She has a private practice in Pasadena, CA. Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D. is psychoanalyst in private practice in the treatment of child, adolescent and adult victims of childhood sexual trauma. Dr. Abney is a former president of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis where she is a training &amp; supervising analyst and co-chair of the Taskforce to Address Racism and Homophobia. Her interests are in the application of modern psychoanalytic theories in cross-cultural and the treatment of childhood trauma. Dr. Abney received her Masters Degree at the Smith College School for Social Work and her Ph.D. in psychoanalysis from the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. All proceeds for the film series go to the ICP BIPOC scholarship fund. We ask you to consider contributing additionally to the Fund as a means for members of the BIPOC community to feel encouraged and financially able to become candidates at ICP.You may donate via Eventbrite or to avoid Eventbrite fees, you may donate here: <a href="https://icpla.edu/donate/#contribute" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://icpla.edu/donate/#contribute</a>All films will be viewed via Zoom followed by a moderated discussion. We strive for a discussion that is civil and respectful of all persons and points of view. Should any participant behave in a manner not supportive of these expectations, we will take appropriate measures and remove that participant if necessary.There are no CE&#x27;s for this series.

No one in the planning or presentation of this activity has any relevant financial relationships with a commercial interest to disclose.The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content.Please check our website at <a href="https://icpla.edu/policies/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://icpla.edu/policies/</a> for complete information on Continuing Education Attendance, Cancellation/Refund policies and our Grievance Procedure. Eventbrite charges a 5% fee on refunds for all ticket sales that was included in the ticket price and non-refundable at the time of registration. For more details and our contact information, please go to our website <a href="https://icpla.edu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://icpla.edu</a>.

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