THE 2024-2025 EMBODIMENT SERIES
Udesh Anda, PsyD, Fannie Brewster, MFA, Lynne Jacobs, PhD, and Guilaine Kinouani, PhD
with Moderators Doris Brothers, PhD and Jon Sletvold, PsyD
How are Blackness and Whiteness Embodied in the Clinical Encounter?
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2025
Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern
This series is presented in collaboration with The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Although therapists and patients have always lived in a world roiled by racism, few psychoanalytic therapists have examined how racial differences affect the clinical situation. In the hope of bringing this important matter to the forefront of our attention, this conversation focuses on the embodiment of blackness and whiteness within therapeutic contexts.
COSTS
Professionals $50
Candidates and Students $30
THE SPEAKERS
Udesh Anda, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, a specialist in child and adolescent psychology, and a clinical society psychologist. He has worked in both the public and private sectors for over 30 years. Using a psychodynamic perspective and approach, he has worked as as clinical practitioner for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties for more than 10 years. Since he is originally from Sri Lanka, he offers education and counselling on minority issues. His special interest is on variables that are often unspoken, yet sensitive for the people of minority origin.
Fanny Brewster, PhD, MFA, is a Jungian analyst and Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her analytical training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst and Certified School Psychologist. She holds an M.F.A. degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. Dr. Brewster is the author of several books, including The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows and Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming. (All Routledge) Dr. Brewster is the recipient of the Fay Lectures honorarium of 2023 from the C.G. Jung Society of Houston.
Lynne Jacobs, PhD, has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. She is also interested in what it means to practice as a white therapist in culturally diverse environments. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of PGI and faculty analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. She has published two books (with Rich Hycner) as well as numerous articles in both gestalt and psychoanalytic journals.
Guilaine Kinouani, PhD, is an award-winning writer, psychologist, group analyst, and thinker. She is the founder of Race Reflections. She taught critical psychology, social sciences and black studies at Syracuse before her PhD at Birkbeck. Her first book Living While Black (2021) exposes the impact of racism on black minds and bodies. Her second book, White Minds (2023) is a psychosocial exploration of the quotidian workings of whiteness. In her upcoming co-edited collection: Creative Disruption: Psychosocial scholarship as praxis (2025), contributors explore power, knowledge, memory, embodiment and the of potential of multidisciplinary approaches in fostering epistemic disruption. Guilaine’s thesis examines whiteness and the afterlives of colonialism and enslavement in the clinic using Afro-analytics, a frame she is developing to rethink racial trauma, inheritance, transmission and associated issues of communication and embodiment within the black diaspora.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS/CO-DIRECTORS OF THE WILHELM REICH CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMBODIMENT
Doris Brothers, PhD, is a co-founder and faculty member of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). She was co-editor with Roger Frie of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context from 2015-2019 and is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She serves on the council of the International Association of
Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP). Doris has published many journal articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her latest book, written with Jon Sletvold is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Her earlier books are: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), and with Richard Ulman, The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988). She has presented her work internationally and leads supervision/study groups with Jon Sletvold. She sees patients in private practice in New York and Oslo.
Jon Sletvold, PsyD, is founding board director and faculty member of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute.He has written articles and book chapters on embodiment in psychoanalytic theory, practice, and training. He is the editor of four books and the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, which won the Gradiva Award in 2015. In 2019 he wrote From Muscular Armor to Bodies in Dialogue with Per Harbitz. His latest book, written with Doris Brothers is A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES. Dr. Sletvold has presented his work internationally and co-leads online supervision/study groups on embodiment in Europe, North America and China with Doris Brothers. He practices in Oslo and New York.