Staying in the Struggle for Racial Equity in Psychoanalysis:

What I Can Say to You, What We Can Say to One Another,

and Together, Forging a Path Forward

Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD

Saturday, March 29, 2025

9:30am-12:30pm EST

Live Interactive via Zoom

Zoom Invite Will be Sent to Registrants on March 28, 2025

3 CEs offered for Counselors, Psychologists and Social Workers (Cultural Competency)

Co-Sponsored with NJSCSW (New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work)

CEs accepted by many states - check with your local boards.

Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, ABPP, FABP

Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD, is a Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas and at IPTAR, Professor and PsyD Program Director Emerita at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emerita at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes is widely recognized for her examination of the impact of race and gender on the psychoanalytic treatment process. Her most recent of many refereed journal articles include the following three works: her 2021 “I do not have a racist bone in my body” paper in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association;  “Hatred: A traumatizing underpinning of racism” (in press), Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and “In pursuit of racial equality in American psychoanalysis: Findings and recommendations from the Holmes Commission” (in press), The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Holmes has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In 2021, she was a recipient of the JAPA Prize and in 2022, she was presented with a Sigourney Award. Dr. Holmes continues to be involved in national psychoanalytic organization leadership, including that she served as the eponymous Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis (2020-2024). She is also a member, emerita, of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Dr. Holmes practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Bluffton, SC.

Workshop Description

In 2023, the Final Report of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis was published by the American Psychoanalytic Association after three years of work, including interviews and surveys with 3 groups: faculty, staff and administrators of psychoanalytic training institutes; candidates associated with training institutes; and people who were psychoanalytically oriented but had not entered a psychoanalytic training program. The results revealed the stark current impact of systemic racism in psychoanalytic treatment and training. Dr. Holmes will discuss the findings of the report and the changes needed in analytic practice and training. The implications may extend beyond psychoanalytic treatment and training to other psychotherapeutic modalities and institutions.

The presentation will be a brief summary by Dr. Holmes of the key elements of the challenge to racial equity in psychoanalysis and training. This will be followed by an invitation to the audience to share their own experiences in the quest for racial equity. There will be small-group and large-group discussions on how to move the effort forward.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Apply psychoanalytic principles to the understanding of systemic racism manifesting itself in psychoanalytic clinical and institutional settings
• Recognize various impacts of systemic racism on the therapeutic relationship and psychoanalytic institutional life
• Identify some ways to address systemic racism clinically and institutionally.

Target Audience:  Suitable for Psychologists, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Graduate Students, Marriage and Family Therapists.

Level of Sophistication: This is an introductory level post-graduate continuing education program suitable for all levels of training.

ADA accommodations available upon request (Required at least 14 days prior to course start date).

3 Continuing Education Credits

Counselors:

Counselors: CPPNJ has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6863. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CPPNJ is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychologists:

Psychologists:  CPPNJ is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPPNJ maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

NY Psychologists: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0165. 

Social Workers:

Social Workers: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0757.

The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners, and some other state boards, recognize CEs approved by the New York State Education Department.

COST: Members $75/$90 pre-registration by March 15; CPPNJ Candidates: $45; Students with ID: $15; Non-Members $120/$135 pre-registration by March 15.

Cancellations made prior to three days (72 hours) before the event will receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee.  Cancellations made less than 72 hours before the event will be given a refund of half of the registration fees. Refunds will NOT be granted for cancellation requests made on the day of the event.

There is no potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support for this CE event.



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