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. 

We also invite you to see:

 BPSI Resources On Race, Equity, Diversity, and Otherness: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Voices

The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in Psychoanalysis


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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