
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:
- Mutual Injuries
- Is it because I am White?
- What about my Color?
- 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.