Speaking About Race: The unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist
Saturday, January 23, 2021, 9am – 12:30pm
with Zachary Green, PhD
Co-Sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI
Integrating ideas from Melanie Klein’s conceptualization of primitive splitting, Wilfred Bion’s work with groups, and Frantz Fanon’s analysis of racism, decolonization, and the psychopathology of oppression, Dr. Zachary Green will present his thoughts on Race: Projection, Construction, & Denigration.
Dr. Green will help us explore ways in which we are all complicit in co-creating a mutual projection process that requires primitive splitting, and which result in the literal denigration of people with darker skin. This dynamic creates both a victim status and a hegemonic structure of white supremacy: in our minds, in our society, and in our organizational and psychotherapeutic/
Break-out groups will be incorporated into the event experience, facilitated by members of COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI. Suggested pre-event watching, reading, and listening has been provided and included below.
Date and Time
Saturday, January 23, 2021, 9am – 12:30pm
Location
Online via Zoom
Fees
Non-members: $125
Members (of all organizations): $100
Students/Candidates: $85
Registration will be capped at 100 people
CEUs
3.0
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Click HereLearning Objectives
1. Participants will be introduced to definitions of systemic racism.
2. Participants will understand how psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are related to whiteness as a construct and its meaning psychologically.
3. Participants will learn how to attend to or dismantle implicit, unconscious white supremacist elements inherent in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic practices.
Suggested Pre-Event Activities
Suggested Pre-Event Activities
Tuesday, October 20, 2020: Shierry Nicholsen, PhD will present “After Wrongdoing: On Moral Injury, Apology, and the Case for Reparations” at a SPSI Scientific Session.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020: Dr. Zachary Green will facilitate a discussion of the video “Black Psychoanalysts Speak” at a NPSI Scientific Meeting.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020: Karen Weisbard, PsyD present Thoughts, Reflections and Questions on “The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege” by Adrienne E. Harris PhD at a SPSI Scientific Session.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020: Marianne Robinson will facilitate a discussion of a chapter Zachary Green co-authored in the book Diversity and Group Relations titled “The Denigrated Other: Diversity and Group Relations.” The chapter draws on ideas from Wilfred Bion, and it will be discussed at a NPSI Scientific Meeting.
Thursday, December 17, 2020: COR’s Study Groups on Centering Black Voices in Psychoanalytic Work will begin.
Other Suggested Watching, Reading, and Listening
These works are suggested with references to the work of:
Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein, Pierre Turquet, Donald Winnicott, & Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents.
Watch the film “Black Psychoanalysts Speak.”
Read Frantz Fanon’s book, “Black Skins, White Masks.”
Listen to W.E.B DuBois’s audiobook, “The Souls of Black Folks.”
Read bell hook’s zine, “Understanding Patriarchy.”
Listen to the IPA’s “Off the Couch” podcast, “Episode 64: From Martin Luther King to Wall Street: Transitions in the Life of a Psychoanalyst: An Interview with with Kathleen Pogue White.”
Read Zachary Green’s post, “Racial Inquiry: A Question of Common Humanity and Unique Individuality.”
Speaker
ZACHARY GABRIEL GREEN, PhD is a professor of Practice in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego and the lead faculty for the RISE Urban Leadership Fellows Program. Trained as a clinical and community psychologist, he received his doctorate from Boston University and completed advanced clinical training at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and organizational consultation through the Wharton Center for Applied Research. As an organizational consultant, Zachary’s clients have included multinational corporations, government agencies, university departments, religious institutions, and nonprofit organizations. He is a leadership coach for the World Bank and a co-founder of IMAGO Global Grassroots, an organization using a participatory, co-creative model to address the generational issues of poverty in international development. His career highlights include serving on the dialogue development team for the President’s Commission on Race, conducting leadership training on five continents, and leading a multi-year process for emerging leaders of Northern Ireland in advance of the Good Friday Accord.