co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Unthought Subjects: How to Listen for the Shadow in Our Racialized Interactions
Presenter: Michelle Stephens, PhD
Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time
By Zoom Only
** Please note that this presentation will be held on a Thursday instead of our normal Tuesday schedule. **
Michelle Stephens, PhD, is the Founding and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and a Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She is a psychoanalyst and scholar whose work primarily focuses on the intersection of culture and critical race theory. She has numerous publications on race, race and psychoanalysis, studies in gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis of culture and society, and contemporary psychoanalysis.
Description:
This session will encourage attendees to consider how our racialized interactions are inflected by shadow, unformulated selves that are kept hidden, out of awareness, chaotically and amorphously unformulated in the field, as disturbing thoughts, dark precursors of inherited knowledge and affects.
Approximate breakdown of time:
First Hour: presentation
Second Hour: discussion with audience
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe how racial interactions in psychoanalysis are inflected by shadow, unformulated experiences
- Describe how inherited knowledges and affects of race are part of our unformulated selves, kept hidden and chaotically and amorphously unformulated in the field
Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.
The presenter, Michelle Stephens, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.
Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091).
Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.
