As part of BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment, BPSI has made a Public Commitment to Reading the Holmes Commission Report. We invite you to read with colleagues, in community gatherings, engaging with the reading, and joining in work towards equity in our field.
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 2024
Published by the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
The Holmes Commission Final Report 2023
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Full Text PDF of the Holmes Commission Final Report 2023, pp 421
- Table of Contents
- Juneteenth 2023
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1: Overview of the Holmes Commission Study Results and Themes
- Chapter 2: Five Themes Cutting Across Data Sets
- Chapter 3: Understanding and Addressing Racism
- Chapter 4: Recruitment, Admissions, Progression and Procedures, and Mentorship and Learning
- Chapter 5: The Curriculum, Racism as an Analytic Lens, and Supervision
- Chapter 6: The Experience of Race on the Couch
- Chapter 7: Enactments
- Chapter 8: The Consultation-Liaison Network
- Chapter 9: Final Recommendations
Appendices
- Table of Contents
- Appendix A: Candidate Survey Selected Response Items
- Appendix B: Faculty Survey Selected Response Items
- Appendix C: Differences Between Candidates Categorized as BIPOC or White
- Appendix D: Differences Between Faculty Categorized as BIPOC or White
- Appendix E: Candidate Survey Demographic Items
- Appendix F: Faculty Survey Demographic Items
- Appendix G: Holmes Commission Interview Summary Report
- Appendix H: A Bulletin of Preliminary Findings, January 2023
- Appendix I: The Fierce Urgency of Now: An Appeal to Organized Psychoanalysis to Take a Strong Stand on Race
- Appendix J: The Holmes Commission's Journey Towards Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Reflection and Hope
- Appendix K: APsA Listserv Emails, March - April 2023
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
“Enactments are powerful because our defenses have not held up; what has been hidden painfully and often surprisingly leaps or seeps out. This is the work of psychoanalysis proper. As difficult as enactments are, they teach us about ourselves and each other. Racial enactments are inevitable. As we work on changing structural racism, chipping away at the defenses that keep it invisible, unearthing difficult histories, and challenging the practices that keep it hidden, the emotions connected to racism inevitably surface. Thus, we believe racial enactments constitute a significant part of dealing with the racial life of organizations.”
– The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality
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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
Click here for the readings and resources from all of our past BPSI READS programs
| 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.
