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The 1044th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Tribalism and Discrimination: An Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspective”

Saturday, November 21, 2020

10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Panelists: Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator), Mark Solms, Ph.D., Robert Paul, Ph.D., and Chief Vincent Mann of the Ramapough-Lenape Nation

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

From prehistoric times, humans appear to have a propensity for joining in collectives that we know as “tribes,” collectives that are probably genetically related.  The focus of this panel will be adherence to the group and the results such adherence may implicate.  Among the questions to be explored by the panelists is whether, in the animal kingdom, humans have a tendency toward aggression (conceivably matched only by chimpanzees) that is neither for the purpose of mating nor the preservation of territory.  Nearly a century ago, Sigmund Freud, predominantly in Civilization and Its Discontents, dealt with this and related issues.  How are we thinking about them today?

Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator) is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard University Law School and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.  He is a member of and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  Dr. Nunberg, formerly on the voluntary faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College, has a particular interest in neuropsychoanalysis and is a member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.  He is Professional Director of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, Inc. Dr. Nunberg’s publications have most recently focused on trauma not emanating from childhood.

Mark Solms, Ph.D.  Professor Mark Solms holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. His rating by the National Research Foundation is ‘A1’ and he is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He has received numerous prizes and honours, such as the Sigourney Prize, the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award and Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is Training Director of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Director of the Science Dept. of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Prof. Solms has published 350 articles in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and he has authored eight books. The Brain and the Inner World was translated into 13 languages. His collected papers were published recently as The Feeling Brain.  Prof. Solms’ next book, The Hidden Spring, will appear in early 2021.  He is the editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).

Robert A. Paul, Ph.D. is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  He is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and was its director from 2015 to 2019.  Dr. Paul’s publications include The Tibetan Symbolic World: Psychoanalytic Explorations (University of Chicago Press, 1982); Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud’s Myth (Yale University Press, 1996); Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society (University of Chicago Press, 2015); and the forthcoming Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture, currently in press at Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in the series “Psychoanalytic Horizons.” He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and the Society for Psychological Anthropology Book Series.  Dr. Paul has served as Dean of the Graduate School and of the College of Arts & Sciences at Emory University, and was for many years the editor of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.  He is a member of the College of the IJP and is on the board of directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives at the Library of Congress. He also serves on the advisory board of the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs.

Chief Vincent Mann is the Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, which encompasses Passaic County NJ, Warwick, and surrounding areas in New York. Chief Mann has held the title of Turtle Clan Chief for approximately twelve years. For the past five years, he has worked with the NYU Environmental Studies Department. During that time, he participated in the construction and implementation of a community health survey focused on identifying and addressing health concerns within his community. To honor Chief Mann’s efforts to shed light on his community’s efforts to fight back after the Ford toxic dumping, he was awarded the Russ Berry Foundations highest award of Unsung Hero. Chief Mann has been at the forefront of the New Jersey environmental justice movement, where he has worked to protect the water supply of 4 million people and advocated for the community living in close proximity to the Ringwood mines superfund site. He has served on the Legacy Council of the Highlands Coalition and the Ringwood mines superfund site’s Citizen Advisory Group (CAG). His efforts have been documented in the recent publication Our Land, Our Stories: Excavating Subterranean Histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. This collaborative publication was developed through Chief Mann’s partnership with the Rutgers-Newark Price Institute and Anita Bakshi, Professor of the Landscape Architecture Program at Rutgers New Brunswick. Currently, Chief Mann is working on co-creating the United Lunaapeewak, a project broadly focused on issues of cultural restoration and the construction of a permanent educational center for the greater citizens of New Jersey and Southern New York. He is also working on co-creating an organic farm, known as the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Garden. The prayer behind this is to create local jobs and, more importantly, to bring back food sovereignty to his Clan. As an advocate for cultural and environmental issues, he continues to this day to offer up prayers for humanity and for our natural environment.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

We regret to inform you that this program has been cancelled due to illness (non-COVID related); we hope to reschedule the program at a later date.  Refunds will be issued shortly.

The 1044th Scientific Program Meeting:

“James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now”

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Beverly Stoute, M.D. (moderator), Irene Cairo, M.D., David Goldenberg, M.D., Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D., Meredith Wong, M.D.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

The acclaimed documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” directed by Raoul Peck, is drawn from James Baldwin’s unfinished work about his murdered friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peck demonstrates, artfully and poetically, a moving and profound understanding of Baldwin’s prophetic work and relationship with all three historical figures, knitting their stories into the lived experiences of Black America. This panel, “James Baldwin’s  ‘I Am Not Your Negro’: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now,” seeks to use the documentary drama to explore race and racism through a psychoanalytic lens. The documentary, narrated by Samuel Jackson, is a nuanced and close-to-the-bone exploration of America’s racial history and the conscious and unconscious socio-cultural manifestations of aggression and libido, hatred and love. While adhering closely to the unique history of race in the U.S., the panelists will explore how the experiences that connect us to Baldwin and his messages still resonate so jarringly today. Can we lean into Baldwin’s ideas to reflect on our hybrid identities as Americans?  Can we lean into our understanding of how the construct of whiteness is an obstacle to deeper connection in understanding difference? Can we challenge ourselves to identify with the lived experiences of racism through Baldwin’s penetrating directness, and face the sobering reality that, as Baldwin said, “The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.”?

David Goldenberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of NYPSI and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Goldenberg is boarded in Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine. His clinical and academic interests include the effects of digitally mediated interpersonal relationships and uses of technology on intrapsychic and interpersonal function.  He is also interested in queer theory and ego psychology.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst, is a Fellow (training and supervising analyst) of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Vaughans serves on several faculties including: as a senior adjunct professor of psychology at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, as the Clinical Director of the Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic, on the Board of Directors for the International Psychotherapy Institute, and as faculty member of The Mitchell Center in New York. He has served as a past Director of the Derner Postgraduate Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Chairman of the Board of the Harlem Family Institute. Among his many publications, Dr. Vaughans is the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of the two-volume seminal book, The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents (2014). He has written extensively on the psychological issues of Black boys, the school to prison pipeline, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma among African American people. Dr. Vaughans maintains a private practice in New York City.

Meredith Wong, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.  She attended George Washington University, where she received a B.A. in biology with a minor in fine arts and an M.D. degree as part of the 7-Year B.A./M.D. program.  In medical school, she was chapter co-president of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association and co-chair of the National Conference in 2003.  She completed psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and adult psychoanalytic training at NYPSI.  After residency, she worked in a clinic in Harlem and then in homeless outreach psychiatry while starting her private practice.  She is currently in full-time private practice in New York.  Dr. Wong has particular interests in cross-cultural, LGBTQ, and women’s issues.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: