The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis 

BPSI invites each member of our Community

to read and engage with the Holmes Commission Report 

The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality (CO-REAP) of APsA was launched in October 2020, with a mission of studying systemic racism in psychoanalysis, and offering plans towards racial equality in our field. On Juneteenth, the Holmes Commission released its historic full report.

BPSI’s Announcement of the Holmes Commission’s Full Report


The Holmes Commission Final Report 2023


BPSI RESOURCES on Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Voices

As one of many initiatives to fulfill BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment we offer this Resources List to our colleagues and the public, with contemporary literature on race and diversities, in hopes of promoting reflection, dialogue, and psychoanalytic scholarship in the service of promoting racial equality in psychoanalysis.

Click here for the BPSI RESOURCES Page


BPSI READS: Open Conversations on Race, Equity, Diversity and Otherness

BPSI READS is an initiative to facilitate regular conversations within BPSI, the larger psychoanalytic community, and the public on issues of Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness. 

Click here for the readings and resources from our Spring 2023 Two-Part BPSI Reads on Asian Identity

BPSI’s Spring 2023 Special Two-Part BPSI READS Series on Asian Identity, with Diane O’Donoghue, PhD, Peiwei Li, PhD, HSP, and the online audience. Recorded on June 13, 2023.

BPSI’s Antiracism Commitment (2020)

Please click here to read our June 4 letter to the BPSI community outlining our commitment to Antiracism.