IPTAR PRESENTS MARCO POSADAS, MSW TIRESIAS’ BLOW: THE PHALLUS AS BASTION IN THE ANALYSTS’ PREJUDICIAL REACTIONS TO GENDER AND SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN RACIALIZED PATIENTS DISCUSSANT: YUKARI YANAGINO, PHDSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021 ON ZOOM10:00 AM — 1:00 PM
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IPTAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Brian Kloppenberg (Chair), Jeanne Even, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Lynne Herbst, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Jamie Stevens, Yukari Yanagino
Inspired by the protean figure of Tiresias, Marco Posadas, chair of the IPA’s Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, will present his most recent efforts to build a bridge between psychoanalytic thinking about gender and sexual diversity and critical race theory. According to Posadas, this conceptual bridge facilitates an analysis of the uprising of unconscious and preconscious prejudices in the psychoanalyst when working with racialized gender creative patients. Drawing upon extensive research in the realms of clinical and institutional dynamics, Posadas will delve into the kinds of intense countertransference reactions that can draw the analyst to participate in iatrogenic repetitions where the analyst unconsciously, preconsciously and sometimes even consciously harms the patient. For Posadas, the way out of these repetitions requires a sustained inquiry into the vicissitudes of White supremacy, anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, male privilege and misogyny, transphobia, genderism and anti-gay hostility—especially their sequestration as bastions (Baranger and Baranger, 1961) that can lead to harmful ruptures in the analytic process. IPTAR’S Yukari Yanagino will contribute her own nuanced response to this important presentation. There will be ample time for interaction between program participants with Posadas and Yanagino. With this event, the IPTAR Program Committee continues a series of programs that focus on the psychoanalytic investigation of racism.
Marco Posadas, MSW is a Psychoanalyst, Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Psychologist (MEX), and PhD Candidate at Smith College School for Social Work. He currently operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Posadas trained at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (TPS&I) and is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He is the current Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA, and also chairs the Scientific Program of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is faculty at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis where he works to integrate cultural, gender and sexual diversity, and anti-oppressive practice into psychoanalysis. His research interest is in the impact of prejudices in clinical competencies when working with psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with LGBTQ populations and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma. He has worked in the LGBTQ+ mental health sector for over 20 years.
Yukari Yanagino, PhD is a Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York at New York University Medical School and an Associate Member, Faculty and Supervisor at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she also co-chairs IPTAR-Q. She is a Clinical Supervisor at the Institute for Human Identity, conducting research to develop psychoanalytically therapeutic protocols that are relevant to the treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming patients. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Yanagino was a guest editor of the journal, The Undecidable Unconscious, Volume 5, 2018.
Learning Objectives:
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To understand how conscious and unconscious prejudices, such as racism, misogyny, and transphobia, can negatively impact an analyst’s capacity to do effective clinical work.
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To understand how to detect and work with conscious and unconscious prejudices in the field of countertransference.
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To understand how conscious and unconscious prejudices impact upon the field of psychoanalysis.
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(3) CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.
Many thanks from the IPTAR Program Committee: Brian Kloppenberg (Chair), Jeanne Even, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Lynne Herbst, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Jamie Stevens, Yukari Yanagino