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.

Dr. Reynoso will argue that we must look to those we may least expect to begin to comprehensively examine racist states of mind at the individual and group levels. To do so, he will draw on his clinical work with children, politically-progressive individuals and persons of color to conceptualize the ubiquity of unconscious organizing principles based on racial hatred. Also, Dr. Reynoso will reflect on encountering his own racist state of mind, as a clinician of color, within a psychoanalytic treatment.

Learning objectives:
Participants will be able to 1) use psychoanalytic concepts to formulate how racist states of mind can serve to protect against unthinkable anxieties in both the clinician and patient, 2) identify how racial aggression is expressed in unconscious self-object representational dyads, and 3) discuss group and Oedipal factors that reinforce racial prejudice.

PRESENTER: Joseph S. Reynoso, Ph.D. City College of New York, Clinical Doctoral Program. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program. Supervisor: Clinical Psychology Program, City College of New York; (Formerly) Clinical Psychology Internship of The NYPI/Columbia University Medical Center. Former Supervising Psychologist and Adjunct Psychology Faculty: Barnard College. Former Book Review Editor (2007-2015): Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39 APA Journal).

The New York State Education Department has approved this meeting for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs and LPs. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign the attendance sheet at the end of the meeting, complete an evaluation and pay an administrative fee of $15. There is no charge for those affiliated with MITPP, MCMH or MSPP.

No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.

LOCATION OF MEETING:
Reidy Hall of Unitarian Church of All Souls
1157 Lexington Avenue (between 79th & 80th Streets)
New York, NY 10075

For further information:
info@mitpp.org
www.MITPP.org
(212) 496-2858

Program Committee: Gino Benza, LCSW, Chair * Carmen Bracero, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Carol Mazor, LCSW * Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA