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This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom as well as in-person at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies.

Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education Events’ 2023/2024 speaker series, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism and Culture. Co-sponsored by the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and BGSP. Series Coordinator:  Allen Chukwuhdi

2 Continuing Ed units/clock hours are available for this event.

Presenter: Jill Salberg, PhD, ABPP  
Discussant: Mahrou Zhaf, PsyaD  

The backdrop for this paper is the ongoing COVID pandemic and a personal response to the murder of George Floyd and the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy that resides in the U.S.  The material argues that currently we are witnessing and living with the formidable trans-generationally transmitted return of inherited racial hatred that had been more repressed, denied and refused. The challenge for psychoanalysis is to consider in what ways psychoanalytic theories and praxis keep in place whiteness as the unmarked category, a standard benefitting itself. As a result, the legacy of embedded racism continues to be reproduced. Transgenerational transmissions of racial trauma and the rupturing of attachments are examined personally and in a clinical case with a white patient.  
 
 
 
Jill Salberg, PhD, ABPP is faculty and a supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and a member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She has co-edited with Sue Grand, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma and The Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference, (2017), both of which won the Gradiva Award (2018). Their co-written book Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction is forthcoming 2023/24 published by Routledge. She has conceived of and co-edits a book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge. She is in private practice in Manhattan and online.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1.  Identify aspects of trans-generationally transmitted racism for white identified persons and for persons of color. 
2.  Identify and discuss how to work with and question white dissociative denial, finding ways to confront this within themselves and with patients. 
3. Identify the ways in which racism affects attachments causing rupturing of relationships discuss how to work within the treatment on ways to repair these ruptures.

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BGSP is authorized to provide CEs for:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors 

Full refund available if you cancel one week prior to the event. If you have any questions, email info@bgsp.edu.

Offering CEs for:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BGSP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5676. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is accredited by the New England Commission on Higher Education. 

Direct inquiries may be made regarding the accreditation status by NECHE to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact: New England Commission on Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Ste 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4514, 781-425-7785 or email: info@neche.org