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The 1067th Scientific Program Meeting:

“What Happens When We Talk to Each Other: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race and Other Difficult Conversations”

Co-sponsored by Program Committee and Committee on Racial Consciousness and Diversities

(Note: Registration closes 9/12 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

8:00 – 10: 00 PM (EST)

Please note an award will be presented to Gilbert Kliman, M.D. prior to the start of the meeting.

Panelists: Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., Daria Colombo, M.D., Leon Hoffman, M.D., Jasmine Ueng-McHale, Ph.D., Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D. and Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. (moderator)

Psychoanalytic literature abounds with papers on various perspectives related to controversial topics, including discussions about race and racism. However, very little discussion exists regarding how to effectively talk with one another about such emotionally evocative topics, especially when there is profound disagreement. This panel will take up the question of what happens when we talk with one another. How do we navigate difficult conversations? What are the challenges within us and between us that we can become more aware of to facilitate meaningful dialogue?

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

References of Interest:

1. Caflisch, J. (2020). When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:578-594.
2. Gozlan, O., Osserman, J., Silber, L., Wallerstein, H., Watson, E. & Wiggins, T. (2022). Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 75:198-214.
3. Long, C., Matee, H., Jwili, O. & Vilakazi, Z. (2021). Racial Difference, Rupture, and Repair: A View from the Couch and Back. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30:698-715.
4. Sue, D. W. (2013). Race talk: The psychology of racial dialogues. American Psychologist, 68: 663–672.
5. Winograd, B., Reichbart, R., Moskowitz, M., Hart, A. H., Morillo, R., Aspenberg, D., Benbella, A., Morillo, R., Cervantes, C., Francis, J., Schorske, C., Crown, T., Adams, C. J., Bennett, J. O., Hart, A. H., Holmes, D. E., Jones, A. L., Morris, D. O., Moskowitz, M., Polite, C. K., Reichbart, R., Thompson, C., Vaughans, K., White, C. & White, K. P. (2014). Black Psychoanalysts Speak. PEP Video Grants 1:1

Biographies

Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., ABPP is a board-certified clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and, for 35 years, has been President/Founder of PsychAssets and Kliger Consulting Group. She specializes in working with children, adolescents, and adults; with families, leaders, and organizations; and communities from diverse racial and sociocultural identities, cross-generational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Dr. Kliger recently received the Public Leadership Credential (PLC) from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School and was appointed North American Region Representative to the International Psychoanalytical Association’s (IPA) “The Community and the World” Committee: Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism. Dr. Kliger is President and Chair of the Board of the new non-profit organization, Harlem Family Services, Inc., which is dedicated to developing and providing the full-range of psychoanalytically informed life-skills coaching and clinical services to marginalized and underserved diverse communities of Harlem and beyond. She has served as the Principal Organizational, Relational, and Cultural Consultant at Harlem Family Institute (HFI), related directly to HFS, which has led to the enhancement of psychoanalytic candidate training to be socio-culturally wise. Dr. Kliger is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak (BPS).

An award-winning writer/artist, Dr. Kliger’s book Power your Heart… You power your Mind: Self-study then Build a Bridge to Someone (available on Amazon) was the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist for Poetry and Illustrations. Her co-produced podcast with Lori Blumenstein-Bott, We Are Human First, received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award and is on Spotify, Apple, and www.psychassets.com.

Daria Colombo, M.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an associate editor for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and won the Gertrude and Ernst Ticho Prize in 2022. She supervises residents from Cornell and Mount Sinai. Her most recent paper “Autotheory: Towards the Embodying of Analytic Framing” was published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Leon Hoffman, M.D. is Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is co-author with Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach and, with Timothy Rice, “Defense Mechanisms and Implicit Emotion Regulation: A Comparison of a Psychodynamic Construct with One from Contemporary Neuroscience. Among his discussions of social problems, he has published  “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Populism” in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2018 and “The evolution of racism in the Western world: addressing fear of the other” in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021.

Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She received her Ph.D. from City College at the City University of New York and completed her psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI). She is on the faculty at NYPSI where she teaches courses on early childhood and adult development. She is a member of the Board of Directors and she sits on various committees including the Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities.

Jasmine Ueng-McHale, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in practice in Princeton, NJ. She is co-author with Calvin Chin, Ph.D. of the chapter “Contextualizing Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Asian Americans: Integration of Transnational and Intergenerational Histories and Asian American Racialization” in the 3rd edition of Glen Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments (2023). She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality at the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Ueng-McHale’s writings include: “Activism, Proximity, and Practicing Community Across Racial Divides,” presented at the conference of the Association of Asian American Studies (2019) and “Mentalizing Racial Relations and Asian American Experiences of Race” presented at the APA Div. 39 Spring 2020 Conference. She co-organized and presented at “Asian in America: Representation, Activism, and Mental Health,” and “Authenticity and Solidarity: Answering Our Call to Civic Engagement and Community,” both at Princeton University. In March-September 2021, she worked with Make Us Visible NJ, a group advocating for the inclusion of Asian American and Pacific Islander history and studies into K-12 education, a policy that was passed in the State of New Jersey in fall 2021. In May 2022 she was appointed by Governor Murphy to the New Jersey Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Commission.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Fellow/Training and Supervising Analyst of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), Adjunct Professor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Mitchell Relational Study Center, Clinical Director of the Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and Senior Adjunct Professor at the Derner School of Psychology. He is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and serves on the boards of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and is the former Regional Director of the New Hope Guild Centers for Children’s Mental Health. Dr. Vaughans is the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents, and he has published on generational trauma and the school to prison pipeline. He is on the editorial boards of several psychoanalytic journals.

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

1. discuss various perspectives on why it is difficult to talk with one another about controversial topics, including race and racism.
2. discuss some expected challenges encountered in difficult conversations regarding social issues, including race, and how to better navigate them.