This seminar series reinterprets W.R.D. Fairbairn’s object relations theory through a critical psychosocial, racial, and decolonial framework. Moving past traditional intrapsychic boundaries, the series illuminates how structural oppression, colonial matrices, and racial trauma actively shape the architecture of the human unconscious.
Seminar 1: Introduction to Fairbairn’s Theory: The Return of the (Politically) Oppressed
Seminar 2: Culture as the Bad Object
Seminar 3: Materiality of Psychic Encounter: Inter-Minority Transference/Countertransference in the Clinics
Readings will be distributed to participants two weeks prior to first seminar.
Dates:
Fees:
Virtual. On Zoom.
There will be NO recordings available for this series.
Please read participant's FAQs before registering.

Nini Kerr, PhD (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the
University of Edinburgh. She is an accredited trainer and psychoanalytic practitioner, and recognised
as a Scholar with the British Psychoanalytic Council. She has published extensively, examining the
intersection of cultural and psychoanalytic studies, including ‘Culture as the Bad Object’
(Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society) and ‘The Tyranny of Relationality’ (International Journal of
Psychoanalysis). She was awarded the Good Practice Research Award in the ‘Positive Disruptor’
category (2022) in recognition of her sustained contributions to innovating and revitalising research
practices that promote social justice and equality. She also received the Principal’s Teaching Award
Scheme (2023–2024) for her work on decolonising counselling and psychotherapy.
Not at this time.
We encourage you to attend all 3 seminars as the topics are interconnected and build on each other. But you can certainly just attend one or two. For administrative ease, the seminars are being offered as a series and cannot be "purchased" individually.
No, there are no recordings for this seminar series.
We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors. Instructors are paid and fees also go to support Center's operating costs for current and future programming.
We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another. And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.
Our one time events are open to all. And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians.
Full refund will be given up to 15 days prior to class start minus a processing fee of $50. If less than 15 days, $100 processing fee would be charged.
No refunds once classes begin or for missed classes.
In the event that the Center has to cancel the series, full refund will be provided.
Barring extenuating circumstances, participants in TAACP’s courses agree to attend all sessions, arriving on time for the entire duration of class.
As classes are online, ensure that you are in a quiet and private space that allows for both audio and video to be on.
Keep other participants’ experience and clinical information confidential.
All involved with TAACP (staff, volunteers, faculty, participants, guests) are expected to interact with each other with respect.
Issues that arise will be first discussed / addressed with the immediate folks involved and can be progressed to include faculty and/or TAACP’s administration.
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