by Molly Merson, MFT

What’s Repaired in Reparations: A Conversation among Psychoanalytic and Social Activists. At the spring conference for the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (formerly called APA Division 39), this podcast taking up the topic of reparations was recorded live in front of an online audience. You may find the description at this link, and the recording will be made available at a future date.

The Warrior’s Path Report. APA Division 45, The American Indian and Alaskan Native Society of Indian Psychologists, has released a “paper of color” stating the need for a decolonized and anti-racist psychoanalysis. This report is an in-depth challenge and call to all psychologists and psychotherapists to “dismantle the Eurocentric structure and practice of APA.” You can find the report at this link.

Psychoanalytic Dialogues 31:1. This journal edition of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, published March 2021, contains rich and powerful articles that challenge Whiteness and racism in institutional settings and in individual dyads, and invite the reader into clinical, personal, and political spaces. Articles also weave the social into psychoanalytic thinking, highlighting how the social informs our work even though it is often displaced from psychoanalytic narratives.