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.
| 2026 BPSI READS Series: Reflections on Three Decades of Being a South-Asian American Analyst, with Aisha Abbasi, MD and the online audience. Recorded on April 13, 2026. |
| 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. |
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
Endurance Streets: Resilience and Response in Boston’s Chinese Community
Peiwei Li, PhD, HSP & Diane O’Donoghue
June 13, 2023
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Asian American experience: The illusion of inclusion and the Model Minority stereotype
Kris Yi, PhD, PsyD
May 8, 2023
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Psychoanalytic spaces, implicated places. In: R. Kabasakalian-McKay & D. Mark (Eds). Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis.
Carnella Gordon-Brown, LCSW; Natasha Holmes, PsyD; Elizabeth Kita, PhD, LCSW and Lynne Layton, PhD
January 24, 2023
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Can We Decolonize Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice?
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD
October 11th, 2022
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Interrogating Race, Shame and Mutual Vulnerability: Overlapping and Interlapping Waves of Relation
Lauren Levine, PhD
May 10th, 2022
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Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference. Part II. Chapter Two: A Clinical Study of a Racist Attack & Chapter Three: Theoretical Considerations
M. Fakhry Davids
March 6, 2022
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Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference. Part I. Introduction: The Impact of Racism & Chapter Three: Theoretical Considerations
M. Fakhry Davids
January 30, 2022
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Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir. Prologue, Chapters 8 & 9
Louis Chude-Sokei
December 7, 2021
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Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry, and Politics. Nigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce, editors. Introduction
Nigel Gibson, PhD
August 9, 2021
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Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. Chapter 5: The Lived Experience of the Black Man
Nigel Gibson, PhD
June 28, 2021
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Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind. Part II. Chapter 4: Historicizing Consciousness: Time, History and Religion
Celia Brickman
May 17, 2021
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Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind. Part I. Introduction and Chapter 1: The Figure of the Primitive: A Brief Genealogy
Celia Brickman
April 6, 2021
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Excerpts from Toni Morrison (1992) Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination & Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Toni Morrison’s Introduction to Huck Finn
Bennett Simon, MD, Roberta Apfel, MD, and Deborah Choate, MD
February 22, 2021
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The Discriminatory Gesture: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Posttraumatic Reactions to Incidents of Racial Discrimination
Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, FIPA
January 5, 2021
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James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind. The New Yorker. November 10, 1962
Cecil Webster, MD
November 30, 2020
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Hamer, F. M. Guards at the gate: race, resistance, and psychic reality & Harris, A. The house of difference, or White silence
Bernard Edelstein
October 5, 2020
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Ibram X Kendi. How to be an Antiracist & Beverly Stoute. Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America
Catherine Kimble, MD, Jim Barron, PhD, Jack Foehl, PhD, Dan Mollod, MD
August 10, 2020
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