Closed Meeting: Getting a-way with a blue eye: Analysis of an adolescent biracial girl

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis: “Getting A-way with a Blue Eye: Analysis of an Adolescent, Biracial Girl”

Thursday, October 29, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

Presenter: Tim Rice, M.D.

Discussant: Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D.

Dr. Rice will present material from the opening stage of psychoanalytic work with a seventeen-year-old biracial girl.  Themes in the material include the creation of a space for the patient to develop a consolidated identity as distinct from her parents and younger brother. Challenges to be presented include the patient’s difficulties in identifying with her racially-mixed peer group and in overcoming the ripples of her father’s idealizations of her white male analyst as they appear within the individual work.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

Timothy Rice, M.D. is currently a candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, NY.  He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he focuses on inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry and medical student education.  He is co-chair of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry’s Task Force on Men’s Mental Health, where he focuses on child, adolescent, and young adult populations and on fathering.

Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor.  She completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Counseling. Dr. Powell-Williams is also a Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas, where she holds the positions of President of Board of Directors and faculty member in the Child and Adult Training Programs. Felecia provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board, as well as supervision as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy.  Along with maintaining a private practice, Felecia teaches on a collegiate level and provides clinical consultation and professional training with many local, state and national organizations on recognizing the need of mental health services for children & adolescents, adults, and families.

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

1. Describe conflicts of adolescent identity formation in children of parents with mixed race.
2. Identify racial components and their defensive function in patients’ transference.

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