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Seminar: Working Across Racial, Ethnic, and Social Class boundaries (Kirkland Vaughans, PhD)

  • 5 Jun 2027
  • 6 Jun 2027
  • 2 sessions
  • 5 Jun 2027, 9:00 AM 4:30 PM (CDT)
  • 6 Jun 2027, 9:00 AM 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • 1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago (and via Zoom)
  • 4

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Kirkland Vaughans, PhD

Working Across Racial, Ethnic, and Social Class boundaries

   June 5-6, 2027

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM


Seminar Title: Working Across  Racial, Ethnic, and Social Class boundaries.

Seminar Description: This seminar is collegial and interactional in format which will  challenge participants to responsibly develop and maintain a “Thinking Space”  which facilitates exploration beyond the “ good and the Bad:”or in short, good  people versus bad people.  Such an environment is more trusting, creative, and becomes a useful tool for self and  other learning processes. Participants are expected to offer clinical vignettes of  their work with the expectation of receiving reflective feedback, as well as   commentaries of being just as stuck.  

Saturday Morning: 

Examine personal racial, Ethnic, Social, and Sexual Identifications, as well as  those of our professional and institutional identifications.

Saturday Afternoon:

The “Quite” cultural, personal, and institutional roots of countertransference. 

Materials include films, articles, and clinical vignettes.

 Sunday Morning.

 Check in thirty minutes.

The Therapeutic Alliance:

  1. Mutual Injuries
  2. Is it because I am White?
  3. What about my Color?
  4. D.Bearing Witness  


Readings  

Cushman, D,.(2025) Who gets to be a child? Clinical and cultural reflections on racism, White infantilization, and Kyle Rittenhouse .Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 35(4), 478-499.

Davids, M,F. (2020) Psychoanalysis and black lives. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 101(5), 1039-1047.

Schwebach, E. (2023) Racism, activity, and passivity in the analytic dyad: A Favonian mediation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 70(4), 619-639.

Vaughans, K.C. (2021) Black boys in the eye of the storm. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 7(1), 47-58.

Vaughans, K.C. & Harris, L. (2016) The police, Black and Hispanic boys: A dangerous inability to mentalize. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 15(3), 171-178.

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