Thursdays, 11am - 1:30pm ET, October 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st; November 7th & 14th; December 5th & 12th

Faculty: James W. Barron, Ph.D., ABPP & Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., ABPP

Guest Faculty:
Himanshu Agrawal, M.D.
Konstantinos Taliouridis, Ph.D, Psy.D, MBA
Anton Hart, Ph.D.
Beverly J. Stoute, M.D.
Mira Erlich-Ginor, M.A.
Shmuel Erlich, Ph.D., ABPP
Karim Dajani, Psy.D., MFT
Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.
Tom Hennes, Principal, Thinc Design

Addressing the challenges presented by systemic racism, discrimination, and othering in our psychoanalytic and community-based organizations is a long-term multi-generational endeavor. The Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies (CLOS) of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE), American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), in collaboration with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), is offering an innovative virtual seminar open to those in leadership positions in our psychoanalytic organizations from various countries and cultures to help us all engage more effectively with those challenges.

This seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious, projective identification, splitting, social defenses, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens, as Bion, suggested, so that we can think of individual, group, and culture as co-creating the field and influencing and shaping each other, we will use these concepts to deepen our understanding of racism and othering in ourselves and in the groups and organizations in which we are embedded.

Ultimately, our primary aim is to enhance our individual and collective efforts to become more inclusive, more open in our thinking, and equitable in sharing power.

Find out more and sign up here.