Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series
Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW
(New York, NY)
Standing in the Spaces Between Black and White
Friday April 17, 2026
7-9pm (CST)
After-Words Bookstore, 23 E. Illinois Street, Chicago
&
Zoom
About the Presentation: This presentation will discuss the White and Black binary, anti-black logics and it’s impact on other marginalized identities, animals, the earth. What does it mean to center Whiteness and our relationship to its construction and belief systems?
Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, is a teaching, training, and supervising analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), Clinical co- Director of MIP and MIP- One Year Program: Psychoanalysis and the Socio-Political World. Additionally, she is a faculty member of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. (NIP),The Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) and an Adjunct Professor at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work at Hunter College.
Chanda is the co-author of The Secret Society: Perspectives from a Multiracial Cohort with Rossanna Eceygoyén and Julie Hyman and author of the psychoanalytic Dialogues’ “snapshots”,"Who’s on my couch: BIPOC subjectivity and the climate crisis”, “Grief and Loss, Hopes and Desires,” the MIP blog essay: "Red Pill Psychoanalysis and the Matrix of Racial Roles," and the Psychoanalytic Activist: "Centered." Chanda is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and is in private practice in New York City
Learning Objectives:
1.Participants will be able to discuss anti-blackness with more complexity.
2. Participants will be able to describe the transitional space between Whiteness and Anti-blackness.
This presentation is for all levels of professional experience.
Fees
CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.
Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.
New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.
Non-CCP members, single admission: $50
Continuing Education
This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).
Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 16, 2026 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org
References/Suggested Readings
Griffin, C.D.(2025) ( in press) The White Supremacist Within: Racial Dissociation and Multiplicity.
Griffin, C.D. (2022) "Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis," Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:4, 340-341, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2022.2090807
Suchet, M. (2004). A relational encounter with race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(4), 423–438. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481881409348796
Jackson, Z.I.(2020) Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World.
Vaughans, K. (2014). To unchain haunting blood memories: Intergenerational trauma among African Americans.. In M. O’ Loughlin (Ed.) Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (277-290), Roman & Littlefield.
White, K. P. (2002). Surviving hating and being hated: Some personal thoughts about racism from a psychoanalytic perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38(3), 401–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2002.10747173
Yi, K. (2014). Toward formulation of ethnic identity beyond the binary of White oppressor and racial other. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31(3), 426–434. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036649
Presented by
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Zak Mucha, LCSW, Alan Levy, PhD, Toula Kourliouros Kalven.
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.