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Jewish Experience in Racial Reckoning: Openings and Obstacles - May 5th, 2024

  • 05/05/2024
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Virtual Online Event

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Jewish Experience in Racial Reckoning:

Openings and Obstacles 

Speakers: Janna Sandmeyer, PhD and Julie Hyman, LCSW

Facilitator: Kate Leslie, LICSW

Date:  Sunday, May 5, 2024

Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm

Location: A Virtual Zoom Event

2.0 CEs Offered

Program Description:

In this program, Dr. Sandmeyer will share her thoughts about how the transgenerational transmission of trauma that has marked Jewish experience from its inception, intersects with a transgenerational transmission of privilege within the psychoanalytic psychotherapy community. While all members of dialogues addressing racial reckoning are confronted simultaneously with multiple self-other configurations that may be consciously in conflict with each other and/or unconscious and dissociated, this seemingly discordant coupling of privilege and trauma with regard to Jewish experience generally remains unspoken, is sometimes disavowed, and often results in confusing interactions that stem from split off affect states. Analogous to the psychoanalytic psychotherapy situation, the aim of this discussion is to engage these dissociated, disavowed and/or conflicted parts, such that they become accessible not just to Jewish participants, but to all participants, thereby deepening mutual understanding and expanding self-awareness. Dr. Sandmeyer will use her personal experiences, contextualized within psychoanalytic theory, to illustrate how dissociated affects states such as shame and terror can animate or impede efforts at racial reckoning within our institutes. Julie Hyman, LCSW will offer her thoughts and reflections, and Kate Leslie, LICSW, will facilitate.

Objectives:

After attending this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Articulate how Jewish peoples’ experiences of privilege and trauma inform efforts at racial reckoning
  2. Describe the importance of intersubjective recognition in successful racial dialogue.
  3. Describe how dissociative processes impede efforts at racial reckoning.
Speaker Bio

Dr. Janna Horowitz Sandmeyer is faculty and supervisor at the New Washington School of Psychiatry and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy + Psychoanalysis (ICP+P), where she was also the founding Chair of the Task Force for Sexual Diversity and Inclusion. Dr. Sandmeyer serves on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. She has published articles in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, and her article on which this presentation is based, “Transgenerational Transmission of Privilege and Trauma: Locating Jewish Experience in Racial Reckoning in Psychoanalysis” will be published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2024. Dr. Sandmeyer’s writing focuses on theorizing marginalization, and she has presented internationally on sexual and gender diversity. She was the 2018 recipient of the Ralph Roughton award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. She maintains a private practice in Washington, DC.

Julie Hyman, LCSW is faculty, supervisor and training analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP). At MIP, Julie helped develop the one-year program in Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World and is a member of the program's advisory board and of the Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE). Additionally, she is faculty and supervisor at The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC). Julie is a co-author, along with Chanda D. Griffin and Rossanna Echegoyén, of “The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiracial Cohort” (2020). Julie runs groups for members of psychoanalytic institutions as well as individual clinicians that explore personal and institutional relationships to whiteness, race and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City.

Kate Leslie is a licensed clinical social worker, originally from Atlanta, GA. She received her Honors Graduate BA in Modern Culture and Media (Semiotics) from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 2001, where she focused on post-colonial literature and politics. After working in social services agencies for LGBTQ youth in Portland, Oregon for several years, Kate received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, MA. Her training placements at Smith were in San Francisco, providing psychotherapy to HIV-positive clients and transgender youth. After graduation, she received a post-masters training fellowship at the McAuley Institute at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, a psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents, staffed with training analysts from the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Following her work at McAuley, Kate was instrumental in helping to start the Masonic Center for Youth and Families out-patient clinic, alongside Dr. Terrence Owens, PhD, Dr. Paul Williams, PhD and with training from Dr. Mary Target, PhD. Her exposure to psychoanalysis in San Francisco sparked her interest in neo-Kleinian theory and has led her to focus on how fractured mind-states interact with race and racism, homo- and transphobia. She currently is in private practice in Boulder, CO.

Please RSVP by: Thursday, May 2nd at 12:00pm ET.

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