2024 Symposium Readings

Suggested Readings for Michigan Psychoanalytic Society’s 47th Symposium, “The Racialized Mind Across The Life Cycle: Psychoanalytic Perspectives”

Speakers:  Dionne R. Powell, M.D. and Beverly J. Stoute, M.D.

Date: April 20, 2024; Place: Hotel Saint Regis, Detroit, MI.

1. Powell, D.R. (2018). Race, African Americans, and psychoanalysis: Collective silence in the therapeutic conversation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66:6, 1021-1049.

2. Stoute, B.J. (2021). Black Rage: The psychic adaptation to the trauma of oppression. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69 (2): 259-290.

3. Hart, A. (2019) Hart, A. (2019) The Discriminatory Gesture: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Posttraumatic Reactions to Incidents of Racial Discrimination, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26 (1): 5-24.

4. Stoute, B.J. (2019). Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. American Imago, 76 (3), Fall 2019, pp. 335-357. 

5. Powell, D.R. (2020) From the Sunken Place to the Shitty Place: The Film Get Out, Psychic Emancipation and Modern Race Relations from a Psychodynamic Clinical Perspective, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 89:3, 415-445.