This Saturday conference is a hybrid event, and there is the option to attend in person or virtually. More information available through the registration process.
In person attendees —find us by entering via the side entrance on Diman Street
3 Continuing Education Credits available for Psychologists and Social Workers.
FALL 2024 CONFERENCE
This presentation explores identity formation and identity presentation in psychoanalytic practice with Latinx populations to shed light on the complexities of life in the barrio, a life often marked by poverty, migration, marginalization, and barriers of language, class, and race. I will explore identity and identification at the intersection of psyche and community, addressing modalities of individual suffering that are also allegories of social conditions, with populations that have been historically marginalized for their race, gender, class, or sexualities..
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
Identify and describe basic issues of class, ethnicity, race, and language as they intersect among marginalized populations in the Barrio.
Accrue a better understanding of some of the basic misconceptions about the applicability of psychoanalysis.
Develop a deeper understanding of the role of identity and identification in psychoanalytic clinical practice with marginalized populations.
Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is Sigourney Award recipient for her work with Latinx and gender variant communities. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . She co-authored with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize), and with Manya Steinkoler Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't ; Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy and, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).
1) Gherovici, P. (2023) “Why I Did Not Write a Book on Lacan and Tango” E-Flux Journal, https://www.e-flux.com/notes/530284/why-i-did-not-write-a-book-on-lacan-and-tango, March 2023.
2) Gherovici, P. (2022) "Hate Up to My Couch: Psychoanalysis, Community, Poverty and the Role of Hatred" Psychoanalysis and History, Volume 24 Issue 3, Page 269-290, ISSN 1460-8235 Available Online Dec 2022. Open access. (https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.20)
3) Gherovici, P.(2022) "Beyond fear and pity". Psychoanalytic Review, 109(3), 2022, 287–308.
4) Winograd, B. (2016). Psychoanalysis in El Barrio [Documentary film].Christian, C., Reichbart, R., Moskowitz, M., Morillo, R., Winograd, B., Ainslie, R., Almario, M., Christian, C., Delgado, J. M., Gaztambide, D. J., Gherovici, P., Javier, R. A., de Lourdes Mattei, M., Sánchez-Montañez, P., Mujica, E., Padrón, C., D. Nieves Pizarro, G. & Ramirez, D. (2016) Psychoanalysis in El Barrio.
5) Kernberg, O. F. (2016) Chapter 6. The Pressing Need to Increase Research in and on Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads: Reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training 94:89-106.
6)Aafjes-van Doorn, K., & Prout, T. A. (2022). Changing attitudes toward evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 39(3), 217–225. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000397