South Africa: Explore race and identity in therapy. Our courses offer a relational framework for ethical practice with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Yvette Esprey offers a framework for thinking about race and racial identity in the therapeutic encounter in this challenging course. Using a relational psychoanalytic lens, she considers how race affects the subjectivity of both client and therapist and how racial dynamics shape the therapeutic process. Clinical vignettes illustrate how thinking can collapse when race is avoided, and the course treats awareness of racial dynamics as an ethical imperative for good practice. It is accredited by the HPCSA for CPD points and is highly relevant to South African psychologists.
In this challenging and illuminating talk, Yvette Esprey offers a framework for thinking about race and racial identity in the therapeutic encounter, suggesting that a relational psychoanalytic framework allows for the consideration of how race impacts on subjectivity of both clients and therapists, and how racial dynamics impact on the therapeutic process. Yvette focuses on an awareness of racial dynamics as an ethical imperative, essential to good practice.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
Understand how race and racial identity influence subjectivity and clinical dynamics in therapy
Describe how a relational psychoanalytic approach can support meaningful engagement with racialised processes
Reflect on the ethical importance of recognising and addressing racial dynamics in clinical practice
Identify the ways in which unconscious racialised transferences may arise and be worked with therapeutically
Enhance cultural humility and responsiveness in working with clients from racially and culturally diverse backgrounds