Soo, You Wanna Be an Analyst?
Part 2
NO CE CREDIT
***This session will be recorded***
Date: March 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Our second event in our: “ So you Wanna be an Analyst?” series, will continue to offer a space for dialogue on varied aspects of psychoanalytic training in institutes in the USA today. Our current presenters, Dr. Kirkland Vaughans, Chanda D. Griffin and Sherwood McPhaul, senior analysts of color, have been instrumental in bringing more awareness and change to psychoanalytic theory, practice and institutes in the USA. They have all contributed to the long-needed process of reckoning with systematic, structural and theoretical racism within our profession in various forms, including collaborating on a multi-year, multi organizational project to study, address and propose changes in psychoanalysis, in the project called: the Holmes Commission.
On August 21, 2020, The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis (the Commission) was established with the mission of investigating apparent and implicit manifestations of systemic racism and its underlying determinants embedded in American psychoanalysis and to offer remedies for all aspects of identified racism. The scope of the Commission’s inquiry includes APsA’s national organizational governance structures, policies and practices, the educational standards and practices within its member institutes, and interactions with the wider psychoanalytic world beyond APsA and with the public in general.
The presenters will talk about their personal and professional experiences as candidates and analysts in the North American institution of psychoanalysis and will provide space to engage with the audience. They will highlight unique differences, joys and challenges that one could consider when thinking about when and how to engage more intentionally in psychoanalytic training. We hope this space to be a forum of intellectually thoughtful, mutually respectful and introspective one, where all can be heard without judgment, and encouraged to open a dialogue instead of furthering the echo chambers often large group discussion can find themselves in.
All are invited! Students, early careers, current candidates and analysts who wish to shape psychoanalytic training of today and tomorrow. (The series is brought to you by the Candidates Outreach Committee and Section 1. of SPPP, Div.39)
Feel free to pass this invite onto others who are not D39 members as well, distribute to your schools, or institutions and listserves so that we can invite an inclusive audience.
Presenters:
Kirkland Vaughans
Dr. Vaughans holds a Certificate of Specialization in Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University and offers individual and group psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults in private practice. He is also the director at the Postgraduate Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy at the Derner Institute of Advance Psychological Studies. Adelphi University. Garden City, NY. Dr. Vaughans was the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and is co-author of the book "The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents," published in 2014. He is also one of the founding members of the group; Black Analysts Speak. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Harlem Family Institute from May 2016 until April 2019.
Sherwood McPhaul, LCSW-R, Sherwood is a graduate from New York University Silver School of Social Work and graduate of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), where he is an active member on the MIP Committee on Race & Ethnicity (CORE), on faculty, supervising psychoanalyst, training psychoanalyst, and Director of the One Year Program: Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World. In addition, he is on faculty at the National Institute for Psychotherapies, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, adjunct clinical professor at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work and is a proud member of Black Psychoanalysts Speaks. Sherwood is a private practicing psychoanalyst in New York City’s Midtown area with advanced training in complex trauma working with adolescents and adults, specializing in the treatment of individuals with a history of sexual abuse during childhood or as an adult, intergenerational trauma, anxiety,depression, and substance abuse, drawing from interpersonal psychoanalytic theory, existentialism, race & racism, sexuality & gender.
Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, is a teaching, training, and supervising analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and co-chair of the Committee on Race and Ethnicity at MIP. Additionally, she is a faculty member of the National Institute For the Psychotherapies. (NIP),The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) and an Adjunct Professor at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work at Hunter College. Chanda is the co-author of The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiracial Cohort (with Rossanna Echegoyen and Julie Hyman) and author of Who’s on my couch: BIPOC subjectivity and the climate crisis, the MIP blog essay: Red Pill Psychoanalysis and the Matrix of Racial Roles, and the Psychoanalytic Activist,: Centered. Chanda is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and is in private practice in New York City.
