Facing Race and Racism in Psychoanalysis

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2 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists

Michael Moskowitz will discuss the problem of institutional racism in psychoanalysis. He will address the need for greater openness to and understanding of the roles of history and culture in psychoanalytic training, transference, and countertransference, and their implications for making psychoanalytic education more accessible and relevant to people of color.

Michael Moskowitz, PhD, is president-elect of IPTAR, where he is an instructor and training analyst. He is also on the faculties of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the NYU School of Social Work. He has written about psychoanalytic theory, organizational dynamics, race, ethnicity, and neuroscience. He is co-editor of Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy (Aronson, 1996) and author of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution (Karnac, 2010). Dr. Moskowitz was a team leader at the first VA Vietnam Veterans Center in the Northeast, a recipient of the Gradiva award for his work in psychoanalytic publishing, and co-producer of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and associate producer of Psychoanalysis in El Barrio.

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