The Institute for Clinical Social Work
Presents
Working Across the Divides: Intersectional Challenges in Psychodynamic Work
Sunday, June 26, 2022 - EVENT POSTPONED
More Information to follow
Please join these highly esteemed clinicians as they present their workshop on psychodynamic practice
and the intersectional areas of race, gender, culture, ethnicity, power, and class. Using experiential
exercises, role play, and clinical vignettes, the facilitators will develop a “mental space” for exploration
on the following topics:
Racial Trauma and Racial Enactments
Transference and Countertransference Related to Diversity
Transgenerational Trauma Barriers to Treatment for POC
Presenters,
Kirkland Vaughans, PhD
Paula Kliger, PhD, ABPP
Sherwood McPhaul, LCSW-R
Warren Spielberg, PhD
Moderators: Joan Berzoff, PhD, and Huey Hawkins, PhD, LCSW
Cost: $100 General - $45 Students
(contact Elree C. Smith for student registration link or questions regarding this event - esmith@icsw.edu)
This event will be recorded
VIA ZOOM/2.5 CEU: LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
This presentation may be used towards your cultural competency credits.
EVENT POSTPONED - MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW
About the Speakers
KIRKLAND VAUGHANS, PhD – the Harlem Family Institute’s Honorary Dean and former Board Chairman – is a clinical psychologist and Fellow/ training and supervising Analyst of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and at the Harlem Family Institute. He is Adjunct Professor in both the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Mitchell Relational Study Center, as well as Clinical Director of the Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and Senior Adjunct Professor at the Derner School of Psychology. He is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and serves on the boards of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and the New Center for Community Psychoanalysis and was formerly Regional Director of the New Hope Guild Centers for Children’s Mental Health of Brooklyn. He is the founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-edited the two-volume “The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents” and has published articles on generational trauma and the school-to-prison pipeline. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. In addition, he maintains a private practice in New York City with adolescents and adults.
PAULA CHRISTIAN-KLIGER, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified psychologist and a psychoanalyst who
founded Psychological Assets, PC and Kliger Consulting Group, LLC, more than 30 years ago. Having a broad professional practice, she works with children/adolescents and adults, with families, organizations, and communities, from diverse social, generational, and cultural backgrounds. She specializes in complex cases involving people who have suffered from multiple crises, disaster, and/or historical and transgenerational trauma and other stress-based adversities. She is a leadership and organizational consultant. Dr. Kliger is principal organizational, relational, and cultural consultant at Harlem Family Institute, is Associate Faculty at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Clinical Assistant Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Kliger is a member of APSAA and IPA, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), American Psychological Association (APA), and Black Psychoanalysts Speak (BPS). Her article with William R. Nixon, Jr, PhD, “The Mind of the Executive through Eyes of Psychoanalytic Partners,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, July 2012, speaks to her long-standing work with leaders in Fortune 500 companies and family businesses and also offers an innovative approach to working side by side with an analyst partner in consultation. Her most recent work involves developing “Bridging Psychoanalysis and the Community” initiative for APsaA’s DPE Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Kliger was awarded a 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award in Poetry and Illustrations for “Power Your Heart, You Power Your Mind: Self Study, Then Build a Bridge to Someone.” found on Amazon.
SHERWOOD McPHAUL, LCSW-R, is a graduate of New York University, Silver School of Social Work, and a graduate of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), where he is on faculty, a supervising psychoanalyst, and Director of the One-Year Program: Psychoanalysis in the Sociopolitical World. He is committee chair of the MIP Sexuality and Gender Initiative (SGI) and is an active member on the MIP Committee on Race & Ethnicity (CORE). Sherwood is an adjunct clinical professor at Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work and is a private practicing psychoanalyst in New York City’s East Village/Union Square area working with adolescents and adults, specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and complex/intergenerational trauma with a focus on interpersonal psychoanalytic theory, race; racism, sexuality & gender.
WARREN SPIELBERG, PhD, Fulbright Scholar, psychologist, psychoanalyst is an Associate Teaching Professor at the New School in New York. He is also visiting faculty at the William Alanson White Child and Adolescent Training Program and faculty at the Adelphi University Trauma Program. In addition, he is visiting teaching fellow at the Child Institute at Al Quds University on the West Bank. He is Co-Editor of “The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents- Two Volumes,” Praeger 2015. He is also the co-author of the coming report “Making the Connections – Male Norms and Trauma” published by NGO PROMUNDO GLOBAL, an international NGO that works to promote gender equity and prevent violence by engaging men and boys in healthy practices in partnership with women and girls. He is an acknowledged authority on the problems of boys and men and is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on treatment guidelines for boys and men. He is the recipient of the Practitioner of the Year Award by the APA for his work with the FDNY post 9/11. His consultative work has included the U.N. Office of Migration, UNICEF, the NYC Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, and the Obama Foundation. He maintains a private practice in Brooklyn Heights, where he works with children, families, and adults. His website is www.warrenspielberg.com
