(IPTAR) DIVERSITY COMMITTEE IS PROUD TO PRESENT
A UNIQUE ROUND TABLE
ANNIE LEE JONES, CHERYL THOMPSON, C. JAMA ADAMS
KATHLEEN WHITE, KIRKLAND VAUGHANS
BLACK PSYCHOANALYSTS SPEAK:
PART I
Moderator: Michael Moskowitz
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012
9:30AM – 1:00PM
IPTAR WEST,
140 WEST 97TH STREET
Registration at 9:30am
Followed by coffee and muffins
Suggested admission fee at door: $25
Candidate/student suggested fee: $10
PLEASE RSVP to Richard Reichbart, Ph.D.(co-chair): reichbart@earthlink.net
Seating may be limited.
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Please join the conversation with our five distinguished panelists discussing their thoughts about psychoanalysis and their experience in the psychoanalytic community.
The topics discussed will include the relevance of psychoanalysis to communities of color and how psychoanalytic institute training can better meet the needs of black psychotherapists and black patients.
PARTICIPANTS
KIRKLAND VAUGHANS, Ph.D., a graduate of NYU Postdoc, is on the faculty of Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies. He was founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (JICAP) and served as its editor for 10 years. He made JICAP a special venue for the publication of papers on the treatment of children of diverse ethnic groups and economic backgrounds. He has a private practice in NYC and is a school psychologist at Hempstead high school. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on the psychology of black boys and adolescents.
KATHLEEN POGUE WHITE, Ph.D. was trained at William Alanson White, where she is founding member and past director of their Organization Program. A member of the Tavistock Institute, she uses the combined theories of Group Relations and Psychoanalysis to consult to groups and organizations. She has published many journal articles including “Surviving Hating and Being Hated: Some Personal Thoughts about Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective”, 2002, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38: 401-422.
C. JAMA ADAMS, Ph.D. is Chairperson of Africana Studies at John Jay College as well as an organizational consultant and psychotherapist in NYC. He is on the Advisory Board of IPTAR, although he decided not to pursue full psychoanalytic training. He recently (2009) published a book chapter in Heterosexual Masculinities (edited by Reis & Grossmark) entitled “Psychotherapy with Poor African American Men: Challenges Around Construction of Masculinities.” Dr. Adams
Is currently doing research on identity issues in peoples of Africana heritage residing in China.
ANNIE LEE JONES, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst trained at NYU Postdoc and also a short story writer and poet, who often draws in vivid ways upon her experiences growing up in the South. Her poetry and prose appear in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (“Jelly Jar” and “Playhouse Under the Roof”, 2009, 6:83 -85) and in a new (2012) Karnac book, edited by Salman Akhtar, M.D. entitled “Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.” She works in the V.A. Community Living Center in Queens and has a private practice nearby. She is interested in masculinity as performance art and poverty/violence as a unifying force in black America.
CHERYL THOMPSON, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy atSeton Hall University. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey (CPPNJ), and a supervisor in the Relational Track at NYU Postdoc. She has presented and written about diversity including her 1995 article in Psychoanalytic Psychology “Self Definition by Opposition: A Consequence of Minority Status” 12:533 -545; and has a long standing interest in the effects of disorders of attachment and anti-social behavior.
MICHAEL MOSKOWITZ, Ph.D. is on the faculty of IPTAR and the NYU School of Social Work, and was the founding chair of the IPTAR Diversity Committee. He is the author of articles on psychoanalytic theory, organizational dynamics, morality, culture, race and ethnicity, and a co-editor of three books including “Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy”. He is author of “Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution” (2010).
