This 3 part seminar is meant for beginning and experienced practitioners interested in the interplay of individual, interpersonal, and sociocultural experiences in the formation of identity and belonging, and in the psychotherapeutic relationship.
Drawing on various psychoanalytic traditions and contemporary developments in the areas of race and culture, this course explores meanings of the “social” in psychoanalytic theory and practice, specifically as it pertains to Asian American experiences.
The seminar will focus on the following three topics: 1) Invisibility of Asian American subjectivity in psychological theory and training. 2) Collapsing of heterogeneity of Asian American experiences; 3) Reclaiming multiple and hybrid subjectivities in psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapy.
The seminar will include both lecture and discussion of case material.
Usha Tummala-Narra (she/her), Ph.D. is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational
Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and
culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice and is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues
and a Consulting Editor of the American Psychologist.
She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).
She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books.
Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).
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.
Classes are small to encourage dialogue. We encourage you to “take” your share of talking time and listening time.
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.
Unfortunately, not at this time. If you can or know of someone who can help us get approved nationwide, please email hello@taacp.org.
Course fees are split between instructors and the Center. We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors. The fees to Center support operating costs for current and future programming. At this time, our non-teaching staff are volunteers.
No, sessions will not be recorded.
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.
If you need to withdraw from enrollment, full refund will be given to up to a week prior to class start minus a processing fee of $50.
No refunds once classes begin or for missed classes.
In the event that the Center has to cancel a course, full refund will be provided.
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