Chanda Griffin, LCSW
Anti-blackness and Psychoanalytic Praxis
April 18-19, 2026
Kinzie Hotel
20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago
& ZOOM
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.
Seminar Title: Anti-blackness and Psychoanalytic Praxis
Seminar Description: This seminar will cover the pervasive impact of anti-black logics and ideology on the socio-psyche of all identities mainstream and marginal, the environment, and beliefs systems. The discourse will include examples of its impact on patient and analyst in the consulting room and clinical skills to address racialized transference and countertransference from an Interpersonal/R
Readings:
“The White Supremacist Within, Intergenerational Trauma and Dissociation, and Who’s on My Couch , Black subjectivity and the “natural “environment. (MUST BE REVISED)
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