Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Comparative Psychoanalysis at MIP
MIP is committed to a process of understanding the role of race, gender, religion, and all forms of cultural bias in our world and in our institution.
From the beginning, as a comparative institute MIP has included required courses on Culture and Psychoanalysis as well as Gender and Sexuality in its four-year training program. Committed to the alleviation of human suffering, we work towards an understanding of our patients and ourselves in broadly human, cultural, social and historical context.
Critical to discourse in this arena we strive to establish a spirit of questioning, inquiry, and free exchange of views in all of our programs. As a psychoanalytic educational institution we are dedicated to the ongoing creative development of the larger field of psychoanalysis. Such change includes, in part, diverse contemporary perspectives on race, gender, religion and ethnicity as they relate to our identity as a comparative psychoanalytic institute. We are also invested in promoting the broader, international world of psychoanalytic publication, conferences and online communication around analytic theory, education, training and practice.
In June 2020, we made a statement of commitment to antiracism and racial equality. We want to understand what may be barriers at MIP to becoming a more racially and culturally diverse program—one in which we strive towards becoming a welcoming community to people with many different backgrounds. This is a working document subject to revision and change.
Currently, we have asked the faculty to consider including readings on race and culture as well as writing by Black psychoanalysts. Our continuing education programs offer courses on race and psychoanalysis. A “MIP Reads” program with a section for BIPOC is available to all MIP members.
MIP Commitments to Antiracism and Racial Equity
MIP Antiracism and Racial Equity Resources
As a simple first step to continue MIP’s conversation about race and power, the following list of readings, podcasts, shows, and other opportunities is available in service of stimulating critical dialogue about race and power. If there are resources that you want to add to this list, please send all details using the Contact Us form.
Articles and Books:
- A relational encounter with race by M. Suchet.
- A people’s history of psychoanalysis. From Freud to liberation psychology by Daniel Jose Gaztambide
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis by Lewis Aron and Karen E. Starr
- A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
- Ain’t I a Woman Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
- An American By Marriage by Tayari Jones
- America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Blackballed by Darryl Pinkney
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
- Brown Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
- Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of inequality by Joanna Ryan
- Cold war Freud: Psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes by Dagmar Herzog
- Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Evicted – Matthew Desmond
- Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism edited by Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- Good me, bad me, not me: Harry Stack Sullivan: an introduction to his thought by Chatelaine
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- How We Get Free – Keeanga-Yamhtta
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Killing Rage Ending Racism by Bell Hooks
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen
- Malcolm X by Alex Haley
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill
- No Ashes in the Fire -byDarnell L. Moore
- No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson
- Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky
- Psychoanalysis in the barrios: Race, class, and the unconscious by Patricia Gherovici, Christopher Christian
- Psychoanalysis, class and politics: Encounters in the clinical setting by Nancy Caro Hollander, Lynne Layton, and Susan Gutwell.
- Race as an adaptive challenge: Working with diversity in the clinical consulting room by Kimberlyn Leary
- Race in psychoanalysis: Aboriginal populations in the mind by Celia Brickman
- Racial encounters in dynamic treatment by Kimberlyn Leary. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4), 639–653.
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Real Life – Brandon Taylor
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
- Seeing Race and Seeming Racist? Evaluating Strategic Colorblindness in Social Interaction by Evan Apfelbaum and Samuel Sommers
- Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Skin Memories: On Race, Love and Loss by Sue Grand
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
- Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The African American experience: Psychoanalytic perspectives by Salman Akhtar
- The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Neil Altman
- The anatomy of prejudices by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America – Anders Walker
- The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- The Myth Of Race – Robert Sussman
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
- The repression of psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the political Freudians by Russell Jacoby
- The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma by George Bermudez
- The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe – Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
- Toward a social psychoanalysis: Culture, character, and normative unconscious processes by Lynne Layton.
- Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A Carruthers
- Unsafe Travel: Experiencing Intersectionality and Feminist Displacements by Gail Lewis
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- Where do I donate? Why is the Uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)” by Neil Altman
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Berver Doniel Tatum
- Women Race & Class by Angela Y Davis
- Zami by Audre Lorde
Videos, Movies, and TV:
- 13th
- American Son
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
- Blindspotting
- Clemency
- Dear White People
- Fruitvale Station
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion a presentation by Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
- I Am Not Your Negro
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Just Mercy
- King In The Wilderness
- Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’
- See You Yesterday
- Selma
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- When They See Us
Podcasts:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pass the Mic
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
- Uncivil by Gimlet Media
- White Lies (NPR)
This list is far from comprehensive! To suggest additional resources, please contact us.