Psychoanalysis and Racialisation

Psychoanalysis and Racialisation
POSTPONED

28th April - 21st July 2025

Mondays | 7.00pm - 9.15pm (BST) 

In person only at the Institute of Psychoanalysis

Please note: this series is not recorded. 

The level of this series is advanced and is suitable for qualified and experienced psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians.

Entry requirement: You will need to be a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) or the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) to attend. 

If you are not a BPC or ACP member but would like to enquire, please email [email protected]

The series will address and provide an overview of psychoanalytic thinking on a range of subjects relevant to the themes of Race to and Diversity. Drawing on their unique clinical experience the lecturers will outline their psychoanalytic thinking on these topics, providing clinical illustrations and, where relevant, sharing the theoretical ideas that underpin their work. 

The meetings will be structured around the lectures, followed by small discussion groups, each facilitated by a psychoanalyst. The members of the seminar groups will stay consistent throughout, attendees of the seminar groups have the chance to present some clinical material. 

The lectures and seminars will be held weekly in two parts over the summer term 2025. Each part will consist of five sets of lectures and seminars, followed by a final reflective group session at the end of the series. The aim of this session is to provide participants with a space to review and reflect on their experience of the series.

• 28th April | Lecture 1 – Sharon Numa
General introduction to the series: Race and Disavowal

• 12th May | Lecture 2 – Sharon Numa
‘Racial Melancholia’

• 19th May | Lecture 3 – Fakhry Davids
Internal Racism I: Theoretical Aspects

• 2nd June | Lecture 4 – Kannan Navaratnem
Aspects of Diversity: Culture, Race, and Language in Analytic work 

• 9th June | Lecture 5 – Narendra Keval
Exploring the  ‘Racial Scene’ in the Clinical Situation

Part 2

• 16th June | Lecture 6 – Maxine Dennis
Trauma and the Process of Racialisation

• 23rd June | Seminar 7 – Kannan Navaratnem
Prejudice and Countertransference: Theoretical and Clinical Issues

• 30^th June | Lecture 8 – Fakhry Davids
Internal Racism II: Clinical explorations

• 7^th July | Lecture 9 – Maxine Dennis
Maternal Object Lost and Found

• 14th July | Lecture 10 – Narendra Keval
Working Clinically with Racist States of Mind

• 21st July Reflective Session – with all lecturers and seminar leaders

All required reading material will be provided. 

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Please note: these lectures can only be purchased as a series.

REFUND POLICY: Tickets are fully refundable until 14 days before the series begins, after which time no refunds will be issued.

Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers. We expect delegates to respect the confidentiality of clinical material discussed in our events. The content must not be recorded, conveyed or disseminated in any format and participants must not share access to the event with non-registered participants.