Monthly Reading Group - All Are Welcome!
Whiteness on the Couch
based on an Article by
Natasha Stovall
Conversation Facilitated by Kelsey Stager, MFT
We appreciate the thoughtful comments we have received about this event. We hope to use the opportunity to reflect with humility on how invisible/unconscious whiteness in our field and in our world contributes to racism.
To quote from the article, “As one racialized trauma after another reverberates across the country, and raw racism becomes more and more overt, there is an ever growing call for white people to “do the work” and uproot the psychological structures that maintain the discriminatory status quo. White people are urged to unpack Peggy McIntosh’s invisible knapsack of white privilege and account for why, as White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo puts it, “we consciously or unconsciously believe that we are more important, more valuable, more intelligent, and more deserving than people of color.”
We do see the dilemmas presented around us discussing this issue, but also the dilemma of not discussing it. We would sincerely like to invite everyone to join us on Monday to engage in this larger discussion of how we as a psychoanalytic community can move forward in encouraging ongoing, open dialogue in order to create change toward a more equitable world.
Monday June 8th, 7-8:30 PM
On Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84191461823?pwd=RkNCcjZDUVM3SHdoYnR2NkdRSDFxQT09
Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
Paint texture by Punkbarby / Getty, Illustration by Homestead Studio
Natasha Stovall
The couch in my therapy office is occupied mostly by white people. Anxious white people and depressed white people. Obsessive white people and compulsive white people. White people who hurt people and white people who hurt themselves. White people who eat too much, drink too much, work too much, shop too much. White people who are bored, envious, guilty, numb. Racist white people and antiracist white people. White people who look across the room and see a white therapist listening. We talk about everything. Except being white.
Link to entire article
