JUNE PRIDE MEETING

Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW

Queering psychoanalytic practice series: 

“Tiresias’ staff and the White Phallus, working psychoanalytically with our own prejudices”

Wed. June 14, 2023

8:30 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Description:

 In this presentation Dr. Posadas will discuss parts of his experiences working with LGBTQ+ and racialized communities for over 25 years. What does queering psychoanalytic practice actually looks like when utilizing classical Freudian concepts such as neutrality, abstinence and the phallus? We will discuss ways of supporting psychoanalytic practice with insights from critical race theory, anti-black racism studies, indigenous feminist theory, and holocaust studies that can provide the clinician with tools to deliver a more helpful approach when working with queer, queer and racialized LGBTQ+ people and other gender diverse people from psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches.

Presenter:  

Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW, FIPA is Chief Clinical Officer of The House of Purpose, a consulting firm that develops psychoanalytically informed programs and interventions to support organizations’ mental and emotional. He is a psychoanalyst member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Psychologist (MEX). He currently operates a clinical practice in Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Supervision and Consultation in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Posadas is the inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the IPA, where he developed the IPA’s sexual and gender strategic plan that included scientific events in Europe, North American and Latin America, and the creation of the first IPA Tiresias award.

His research is in prejudices impacting the clinician when working psychoanalytically with LGBTQ+ and racialised peoples and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma.  He has worked in the HIV sector for over 27 years. Dr. Posadas served on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) where he was recipient of the 2013 OASW Inspirational Leader Award for his work with underserved and marginalized populations, and the Social Worker of the year for Toronto in 2022.

For inquiries regarding the LGBTQ Study Group please contact Esin Egit, PhD (Chair): e.egit@wawhite.org