Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis upcoming events

Fridays @CCP Lecture Series: Standing in the Spaces Between Black and White (Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW) (17 Apr 2026)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the Presentation: This presentation will discuss the White and Black binary, anti-black logics and their 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.

Fridays @CCP Lecture Series: Gender and Its Discontents (Patricia Gherovici, PhD) (8 May 2026)

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Patricia Gherovici, PhD

(New York, NY)

Gender and Its Discontents

Friday May 8, 2026

7-9pm (CST)

We are especially delighted to welcome you to this event, marking a new chapter for us as we gather in our first dedicated home

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& via Zoom

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: This lecture interrogates the moment when gender ceases to be just gender: 

– Gender is not gender when it becomes sex.

– Gender is not gender when it becomes race—here, Afropessimist thought opens a debate between Frantz Fanon, Jacques Lacan, and Octave Mannoni.

– Gender is not gender when shaped by class and access to jobs. We will explore how poverty in the barrio intersects with gendered experience, transforming what gender means when racialized communities face deep economic precarity and social exclusion.

In tracing these limits, this lecture uses clinical vignettes to invite to a psychoanalytic rethinking of gender at the intersection of mortality, race, class, and desire—not as identity, but as a threshold for subjectivity.

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Sigourney Award recipient. Single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . With Chris Christian: Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award and American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize); with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't ; Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to analyze how gender intersects with sex, race, and class, and explain how these intersections reshape understandings of gender beyond its traditional definition.

2. Participants will be able to interpret clinical vignettes through a psychoanalytic lens to understand gender as a threshold for subjectivity rather than fixed identity.

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

References/Suggested Readings

Gherovici, P. (2021). The lost souls of the barrio: Lacanian psychoanalysis in the ghetto. In S. George & D. Hook (Eds.), Lacan and race: Racism, identity and psychoanalytic theory (pp. 183–204). New York, NY: Routledge.

Gherovici, P. (2022). Yearning to be: Authenticity and truth in clinical psychoanalytic practice. In J. Fayaerts & P. Beer (Eds.), The truths of psychoanalysis (pp. 87–96). Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.

Gherovici, P. (2022). Hate up to my couch: Psychoanalysis, community, poverty and the role of hatred. Psychoanalysis and History, 24(3), 269–290. https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.20

Gherovici, P. (2023). The monsters within and the monsters without: Gender dissidents and the future of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 20(1), 65–81.

Gherovici, P. (2025). Hate your neighbor as you hate yourself: How to think psychoanalytically about hate, racism, and exclusion. In N. Bou Ali & S. Singh (Eds.), Extimacy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

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.

Fridays @CCP Lecture Series: Who Holds up the Holding?: The “Talking Cure” In Unspeakable Times and Places (Anton Hart, PhD) (12 Jun 2026)

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

NO RECORDING

Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA

(New York, NY)

Who Holds up the Holding?: The “Talking Cure” in Unspeakable Times and Places

Friday June 12, 2026

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& via Zoom

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: Two cartoon figures are suspended in mid-air. One says, "You're holding me up, but who is holding you up?" The second figure furtively looks around, and sees no one. Instantly, they both fall.

Part of psychoanalysis wishes it could exist outside of time and place, that it could decontextualize its explorations of both personal and relational experience in order to access that which could be considered to be foundationally, universally, human. Yet during the unfolding of psychoanalytic history, psychoanalytic inquiry has been repeatedly forced to realize that it is invariably, inescapably, of its time and place. The realm of "the social" is inseparable from mental experience, both conscious and unconscious. And time keeps marching, even as we each come to point where we can't go on.

This presentation will reflect on the present moment in Western history, and our collective place within it, as psychoanalytic practitioners, patients, and citizens of the world. The collapse of some democratic, order-maintaining governmental, social, and economic structures occasion a sense of catastrophic precariousness and loss. As we try to provide holding environments for our patients, psychoanalytic practitioners may no longer feel "held" in ways that we previously had. What is the impact of losing some of our foundational social structures on what it is like to engage in the psychoanalytic process? What are the ways that we are finding to go on? Are we now more distressingly exposed to our patients as we work now, or more, humanly, enrichingly, revealed?

Dr. Hart is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He lectures and consults nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy. He is a member of the group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and, also, Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at Mt. Sinai Hospital, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality. He is in the process of completing a book for Routledge entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.

Learning Objectives

1) After the presentation participants will be able to Identify three contemporary social influences on the analyst's subjectivity and ability to analyze.

2) After the presentation participants will be able to describe two types of defensive use of the psychoanalytic role on the analyst's part.

This is an Intermediate/Advance Level Presentation

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

References/Suggested Readings

González, F. J. (2020). Looking beyond: Toward a psychoanalytic future. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(6), 1101–1111.

Fromm, E. (1956). The art of loving. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishing.

Holmes, D. E., Hart, A. H., Powell, D. R., Stoute, B. J., Chodorow, N. J., Davids, M. F., Dennis, E., Glover, W. C., González, F. J., Hamer, F. M., Javier, R. A., Katz, M., Leary, K. R., Maree, R. D., Méndez, T., Moskowitz, M., Moss, D., Tummala‑Narra, P., Ueng‑McHale, J., Vaughans, K. C., Russell, M. (Holmes Commission Methodologist), & McNamara, S. (2024). In pursuit of racial equality in American psychoanalysis: Findings and recommendations from the Holmes Commission. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 72(3), 407–552.

Rudnytsky, P. (2022). Mutual analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the origins of trauma theory. New York: Routledge.

Winnicott, D. W. (1965). The maturational processes and the facilitating environment. New York: International Universities Press.

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.