“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn
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The Contemporary Freudian Society Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Program Chair, Gloria Demby Celebrating CFS’s new clinical center on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn A series of psychoanalytic salons and seminars, in Brooklyn (!)
Invites you to attend our first meeting:

“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” Presenter: Narendra Keval, London
Invited Discussant: Marsha Levy-Warren Date & Time: Saturday October 27, 2018 from 10am to 2:30pm
Location: 465 Henry Street, Brooklyn 11231

Preoccupations about differences due to ethnicity, race or racism and their lived experience are always present in subtle ways in the privacy of our daily thoughts and feelings, imagination and dreams. Our clinical encounters are no Continue reading “Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn

Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting: Friday, November 16, 2018 – 7:30 PM
THEM NOT US: FINDING RACIST STATES OF MIND WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT
PRESENTER: JOSEPH REYNOSO, Ph.D.

Psychoanalytic scholars have increasingly addressed the unconscious dynamics involved in racial prejudice. Unsurprisingly, the subjects of this work are frequently persons whose personalities (or parts thereof) are understood to be categorically racist. Following the results of the 2016 election, however, many Americans were confronted by the capacity seemingly non-racist individuals have to endorse social aggression in political leadership. Dr. Reynoso will challenge the method of pursuing racial hate in the mind of “the racist.” The presentation will describe how the pragmatic efficiency of racist templates defend against the ever-present threat of intolerable anxieties in all individuals. Continue reading Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?—A new documentary about Fred Rogers and his television program
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Click Here to Read: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?—A new documentary about Fred Rogers and his television program
By Hiram Lee on the World Socialist Web Site on August 2, 2018.

Click Here to Read:  Selma Duckler’s Review of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Click Here to Read: Fred Rogers and the Loveliness of the Little Good by David Brooks in The New York Times on July 5, 2018,