NCSPP is aware that historically psychoanalysis has either excluded or pathologized groups outside of the dominant population in terms of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, and size. As an organization, we are committed to bringing awareness to matters of anti-oppression, inequity, inequality, diversity, and inclusion as they pertain to our educational offerings, our theoretical orientation, our community, and the broader world we all inhabit.

Presenters Response:

This course focuses on a professional development process that is always already loaded with cultural meanings and implications. For example, decisions about fees are rooted in the current economic realities of a therapist's life, our relationships to the communities we serve, and often involve powerful echoes of our personal and familial class histories. The move into private practice also involves a relationship to one's own sense of legitimacy, as well as the legitimacy that is culturally conferred upon us or denied to us. The course will take up the complexity of therapists' intersectional identities, and will problematize the institutional norms and assumptions embedded in our field.