The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis

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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States.  A creative reading of Hans Loewald’s evocative statement on therapeutic action, the process of transforming “ghosts into ancestors,” is used to explore a way of being with and healing patients with mixed-race identities who are imprisoned in melancholic states. <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">An extended case vignette of an Indian American psychoanalyst working with a patient with a mixed racial identity highlights racialized components of melancholia and illuminates specific countertransference states and enactments that can both impede and allow for the gradual and partial witnessing of racialized ghosts and their transformation into ancestors. <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In this interactive presentation, we will explore:<ul><li style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Roboto;font-size:18px">the therapist's personal reactions to race and identity and impact on the therapeutic process</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Roboto;font-size:18px">our collective fantasies of racial purity and assumptions of white privilege of mixed race individuals</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Roboto;font-size:18px">the racial mourning process</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Roboto;font-size:18px">re/association of split off racialized selves.</li></ul></div></div><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1696281605/maxnuvykgch2ebyhjgsd.png" style="width:243px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-size:20px;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dhwani Shah, MD (he/him)<span style="color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Roboto;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important"> is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in Princeton, NJ. He is a clinical associate faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.  He has authored articles on topics ranging from neuroscience, mood disorders, and psychoanalysis. Dr Shah’s book entitled The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference<span style="color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Roboto;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important"> <span style="color:rgb(94, 94, 94);font-family:Roboto;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important">was recently published by Phoenix Publishing House and was featured in Brett Kahr’s “Top Ten Books of 2022.”  T﻿o learn more about the Center, visit <a href="http://taacp.org" target="_blank">taacp.org</a>. Follow in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taacp_org/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. FAQ 1. Is event only for Asian and Asian Americans?All are welcome to attend. And, the voices and experiences of Asian and Asian Americans will be centered. 2. Is this event only for psychoanalysts / mental health clinicians?All are welcome to attend. The Center welcomes dialogue and collaborations across disciplines and communities.  3. Are there CEUs for this event?No, CEUs are not provided at this time.

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name , Thank you for registering.  Zoom link will be emailed to you 24hrs prior and 1 hour before event.  We look forward to having you.  Warmly, Yin J. Li(they/she)hello@taacp.org

<div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;max-width:100%">Experiences of feeling haunted and of being in the presence of ghosts are prominent in narratives of patients/people of color in the United States.  A creative reading of Hans Loewald’s evocative statement on therapeutic action, the process of transforming “ghosts into ancestors,” is used to explore a way of being with and healing patients with mixed-race identities who are imprisoned in melancholic states. <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;max-width:100%">An extended case vignette of an Indian American psychoanalyst working with a patient with a mixed racial identity highlights racialized components of melancholia and illuminates specific countertransference states and enactments that can both impede and allow for the gradual and partial witnessing of racialized ghosts and their transformation into ancestors. <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;max-width:100%">In this interactive presentation, we will explore:<ul><li>the therapist's personal reactions to race and identity and impact on the therapeutic process</li><li>our collective fantasies of racial purity and assumptions of white privilege of mixed race individuals</li><li>the racial mourning process</li><li>re/association of split off racialized selves.</li></ul></div></div><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1696281605/maxnuvykgch2ebyhjgsd.png" style="width:243px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> Dhwani Shah, MD (he/him) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst currently practicing in Princeton, NJ. He is a clinical associate faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.  He has authored articles on topics ranging from neuroscience, mood disorders, and psychoanalysis. Dr Shah’s book entitled The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference was recently published by Phoenix Publishing House and was featured in Brett Kahr’s “Top Ten Books of 2022.”  T﻿o learn more about the Center, visit <a href="http://taacp.org" target="_blank">taacp.org</a>. Follow in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taacp_org/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. FAQ 1. Is event only for Asian and Asian Americans?All are welcome to attend. And, the voices and experiences of Asian and Asian Americans will be centered. 2. Is this event only for psychoanalysts / mental health clinicians?All are welcome to attend. The Center welcomes dialogue and collaborations across disciplines and communities.  3. Are there CEUs for this event?No, CEUs are not provided at this time.

The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis

When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors

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