As part of RIAPP's commitment to more active engagement in anti-racism work and to highlighting black and brown voices in the field, we are honored to host a free virtual film screening via Zoom of Black Psychoanalysts Speak (Basia Winigrad, 2014, PEP Video Grants 2014). The film is 60 minutes long and will be followed by a 45 minute community discussion. The purpose of this community experience is to foster a space within RIAPP where we can collectively engage in dialogue about issues of race, ethnicity, power, and privilege.

As outlined on the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing website (https://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=pepgrantvs.001.0001a:), "The film is intended to raise awareness of the need for greater openness and understanding of cultural and ethnic pressures in psychoanalytic training, in transferential and countertransferential interactions, and in the recruitment of people of coulour into psychoanalytic training. These participants contend that psychoanalysis has a long history as a progressive movement devoted to the common good. Psychoanalysis asks us to examine the processes of self deception that perpetuate both individual unhappiness and social structures that are inequitable and oppressive. Yet psychoanalytic education has for the most part focused on training and treating the relatively privileged. The Black psychoanalysts here examine this dilemma and engage in a vibrant and thought provoking discussion about race, culture, class and the unrealized promise of psychoanalysis." 

Cost: FREE