Lynne Jacobs will offer three vignettes that reflect racialized mistakes she made that have been part of her learning about working across racial lines as a white therapist. In her words: “In working—alongside my patients— to recognize, understand and repair these mistakes, my patients have helped me to become a braver, better therapist. My patients have benefitted as well, despite the price they have paid due to my mistakes, by being able to challenge me, and ultimately to participate in a repair of our relationship through honest, exploration of the effects of my racialized mistakes on them, which has invariably increased the intimacy in our therapeutic partnership. Aviva Rohde will offer a discussion of the topic through the lens of Intersubjective Self Psychology, after which everyone will be invited to join in the conversation.
Lynne Jacobs
Lynne Jacobs, PhD, lives in two psychotherapy worlds. She is co-founder of the Pacific Gestalt Institute and also a Training and Supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is co-author (with Rich Hycner), of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A Dialogic / Self Psychology Approach (1995). She and Hycner co-edited Relational Perspectives in Gestalt Therapy (2010). She has also written numerous articles for gestalt and for psychoanalytic publications. She has abiding interests in furthering our understanding of relational factors in the therapy process, and in understanding the centrality of Euro-ethnicity and its implications for clinical work.
Aviva Rohde
Aviva Rohde, PhD, LP, is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and a graduate of TRISP where she is a senior faculty member. She is in private practice in New York City where she treats adults, adolescents, and couples. She also supervises at TRISP and privately. In addition, she is a contributing author of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer and recently published in Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.
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