License to Hate: Exploring the Perversion of Thinking and Curiosity in Racism
One-Session Program (2 Contact Hours)
Presenter: Narendra Keval, Discussant: Anton H. Hart, PhD
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017, Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St., NYC
In the just concluded American Presidential campaign, we witnessed a sharp upsurge in inflammatory, racist, and xenophobic rhetoric. In addition, news reports of Black men killed by police confront us with disturbing questions about the role of implicit or explicit racism in many of these deaths. The recent cacophony of crises and tragedies resulting from wars, mass migration and terrorism have sparked xenophobic attacks across Europe while events leading up to and following the “Brexit” vote in Britain have triggered an alarming rise in race hate crimes.
These global, social-political trends add urgency to the need to elaborate our understanding of racism from a psychoanalytic perspective.
In the face of anxieties and fears, the racist imagination seeks out idealised spaces in the mind that offer tempting retreats. Instead of mourning, multi-layered losses coalesce and bind emotional turmoil into an opportunistic structure of racism that seeks revenge through manic omnipotent states that offer absolute certainty. The compensatory excitements of hatred, cruelty and violence can lead to a collapse of a triangular mental space that perverts the capacity for thinking, curiosity and concern for others.
These themes will be explored by looking at the challenges of engaging with racist states of mind when they emerge in the consulting room and on the wider canvas of contemporary culture.
Narendra Keval is an adult and adolescent Psychotherapist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist. He is a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic. He was Clinical Director on the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is currently in full time private practice. His book ‘Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion of Curiosity and Concern’ was published recently with Karnac Books.
Anton H. Hart, PhD, FABP, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. He is a Fellow of the Board On Professional Standards and an Alternate Member of APsaA’s Executive Council. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He served as Associate Co-producer for the film, “Black Psychoanalysts Speak,” in which he was also featured. He is a Co-Founder of the White Institute’s Study Group on Race and Psychoanalysis. He is writing a book, to be published by Routledge, entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice in New York City.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
Discuss the appeal of the tenacious phantasies that underlie racist states of mind.
Elaborate on these phantasies and identify the associated factors that pervert the capacity for thinking, curiosity, and concern.
Explore the predicaments and challenges of engaging with racist states of mind in the therapeutic dialogue and in the wider canvas of contemporary culture.
Continuing Education Contact Hours:
Social Workers: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form. No partial credits will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
Psychologists: The Contemporary Freudian Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Contemporary Freudian Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and evaluation form, participants will be granted 2 CE credits.
Professional Counselors: The Boards of Professional Counselors in the District of Columbia and Virginia will accept continuing education credits for Counselors attending a program offered by an APA-authorized sponsor, provided they comply with the requirements stated above for psychologists. The Board of Professional Counselors in Maryland will accept CE credits granted by a program that is recognized by the Maryland Board of Examiners for Psychologists and Social Workers.
Who Should Attend:
The instructional level for this activity is advanced. Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g. LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Important Disclosure Information:
The planners for this activity have indicated that they have no relevant relationships to disclose.
Program Fee: $25
No Refunds
If you have any questions, please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com or 212-752-7883.
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