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CE: “Decolonizing “Trauma” as the World Burns: Implications for the Clinic and the Streets” – Dr. Daniel José Gaztambide
Sponsored by
The WILA Alumni Association
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
With the rise of social, cultural, and decolonial approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, controversies abound haunted by the specter of “identity politics.” If patients are ultimately oppressed by distinct or intersecting identities in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality, what room is there for working with defenses and intrapsychic reality? For addressing the intimacies of the relational, intersubjective field? For attunement to deep affect and the complexities of our experiential worlds? What does it mean to work with “vulnerable populations,” with trauma, in a time when many across the left and right claim the mantle of “victimization”? When “protecting the vulnerable” can both be a rallying cry for social justice and a logic legitimizing draconian immigration and criminal justice policies to target racialized “military age males” and “men in women’s bathrooms” to protect (white) “women and children”? Drawing on a decolonial perspective grounded in the work of Frantz Fanon, this workshop will work-through these tensions by articulating an integrative approach to case formulation and treatment that mentalizes the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociopolitical simultaneously. Beyond case formulation and treatment, this workshop will also provide clinicians with tools for mentalizing politically on the role of “protecting the vulnerable” outside the consulting room and make sense of how the language of trauma and victimization serve reactionary, indeed psychopathological, ends. Case vignettes will be offered throughout to illustrate these points, and gesture toward pragmatic tools for addressing such quandaries and enactments in-session and without.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the program participants should be able to:
- Integrate the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and sociopolitical in their case formulations.
- Identify in culture and media how the language of trauma and victimhood can both articulate a call for justice and re-enshrine systems of oppression.
- Verbalize how to balance attention to the psychic and the social in the transference-counter-
transference relation.
PRESENTER
DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PSY.D. is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College, where he is the director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology, and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of the books A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch, which received a 2024 Gradiva Award for Best Book. He is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a Miranda Family Fellowship, and the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education’s Outstanding Psychoanalytic Educator Award. Lastly, he is the recipient of a presidential citation for his service as part of the American Psychological Association’s Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate.
CE INFORMATION
- 3 CE credits
- This CE is at the intermediate level
- To receive CE credit you must attend the entire event
The Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. WILA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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