REGISTRATION
FOR THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED.
WE HAVE REACHED CAPACITY.
Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
a local chapter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
presents a
Saturday Morning Seminar
with
Malin Fors
on
The Dynamics of Power
and Privilege in Psychotherapy
February 8, 2020
9:30am - 1:15pm
PLEASE NOTE:
Registration begins at 9:30am.
Program begins at 10am.
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Morrison Education and Conference Center
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920
Click here for directions to the venue.
Welcome to a Saturday morning seminar with clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Malin Fors. Together, we will watch a new APA therapy training film: ”The Dynamics of Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy.” In this video of her work with a real patient – a woman experiencing sexist harassment at a male-dominated workplace in which there are few women -- Malin Fors demonstrates how to address social power issues that may surface in therapy. The video addresses topics such as internalized oppression and resistance, and explores technical therapeutic choices such as self-disclosure, politically oriented interpretations, choice of focus on internal versus external worlds, heterogeneity of oppression, shame, self-care versus blaming the victim, and addressing self-defeating symptoms. In the film, Malin Fors explores a matrix of relative privilege that includes four core patient–therapist dynamics: similarity of privilege, privilege favoring the therapist, privilege favoring the patient, and similarity of non-privilege, with a focus on technical implications for these different dynamics. After the break, the audience will have an opportunity for an in-depth intersectional discussion of cultural diversity that moves beyond the cultural competency discourse. To do this means to rely on our own self-reflection and to endure our vulnerability to incompetence rather than to focus on the more problematic pursuit of “achievement of competence”.
This is an advanced seminar, however, participants with beginning or basic levels of knowledge/skill should be able to take part and benefit from the instruction.
This program meets the requirements for psychologists licensed in the state of Tennessee to obtain continuing education that pertains to cultural diversity.
Presenter
Malin Fors is a Swedish clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who lives in the world’s northernmost town, Hammerfest, Norway. She has worked for a decade at the local hospital’s psychiatric outpatient unit and in private practice. She is also an assistant professor at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency. As a guest lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden for more than 10 years, Malin has been teaching students about the ways in which power, privilege, and gender create biases in the assessment of psychopathology. In 2016, APA's Division 39 and APA Publications awarded her the Johanna K. Tabin Book Proposal Prize for her proposed "A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy." After the book's publication in 2018, she made an APA DVD in the Therapy Series: The Dynamics of Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy. In spring, 2020, she will be the Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.
Schedule
9:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:50am Welcome and Introduction
10:00am Introduction to the Matrix of Relative Privilege – finding a language to talk about intersections and cultural diversity
10:15am Film – case demonstration
12pm Break
12:15pm Discussion and connecting case to matrix of relative privilege
1:15pm Complete Evaluations and Adjourn
Learning Objectives
After attending this advanced seminar in full, participants will be able to:
1. Describe and distinguish four types of core dyads of relative privilege in the patient-therapist dyad.
2. Identify and describe three problems with the paradigm of cultural competency.
3. Identify situations of mutual blindness in the dyad of similarity of privilege.
4. Describe how they will integrate this matrix of relative privilege approach into their preferred therapy approach/technique/method.
Participants
This program is open to all APS members and other interested mental health professionals who may not be members. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode. The material will be appropriate for clinicians with advanced levels of experience and knowledge.
Registration
Professional and Scholar Members:
$45 until February 3, 2020,
$55 after February 3, 2020.
Early-Career Professional Members:
$25 until February 3, 2020,
$35 after February 3, 2020,
Graduate Student Members: Free.
Non-members:
$60 until February 3, 2020,
$70 after February 3, 2020.
Although walk-ins will be accepted, please register online at www.aps-tn.wildapricot.org in advance to assure adequate food and seating.
If you prefer to pay by check, please mail your payment to:
Scott Swan, PhD
APS Treasurer
1005 Kenesaw Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37919.
Refunds honored with written/electronic notice at least 24 hours before date of conference. Contact Scott Swan, PhD. Contact the APS President Joyce Cartor, PhD, to negotiate fees, if needed. Facility is accessible to persons who are physically challenged. Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons requesting them.
APS Membership:
Eligible professionals can join APS or renew their membership for the 2019-2020 program year for $80. Scholars can join/renew for $50 and Early-Career Professionals can join/renew for $45. Graduate students may join or renew for $25.
American Psychological Association Approval Statement:
Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Continuing Education:
This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 3.0 continuing education credits. With full attendance and completion of a program Evaluation and Learning Assessment, a certificate will be issued. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.
In order to fulfill licensure requirements, the Rules of the Board of Examiners in Psychology in Tennessee (https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/health-professional-boards/psychology-board/psych-board/continuing-education.html) state that psychologists must obtain three continuing education hours that pertain to cultural diversity as specifically noted in the title, description of objectives, or curriculum of the presentation, symposium, workshop, seminar, course or activity. Cultural diversity includes aspects of identity stemming from age, disability, gender, race/ethnicity, religious/spiritual orientation, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other cultural dimensions.
This program meets the requirements for psychologists licensed in the state of Tennessee to obtain continuing education that pertains to cultural diversity.
APS and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. APS and Division 39 are also committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods.
Selected References/Recommended Reading:
Blanken, I., van de Ven, N., & Zeelenberg, M. (2015). A meta-analytic review of moral licensing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 41, 540-558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167215572134
Davids, M. F. (2003). The internal racist. Bulletin of the British Psychoanalytical Society, 39, 115.
Fors, M. (2018). Malin Fors: The Dynamics of Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy with Malin Fors. DVD for APA: Series 1 Systems of Psychotherapy. APA Publications: Washington DC.
Fors, M. (2018). A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy: Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege. Washington DC: APA Books.
Holmes, D. E. (2006). The wrecking effects of race and social class on self and success. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 75, 215-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2167-4086.2006.tb00038.x
Nakash, O., & Saguy, T. (2015). Social identities of clients and therapists during the mental health intake predict diagnostic accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 710–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550615576003
Piff, P. K. (2014). Wealth and the inflated self: Class, entitlement, and narcissism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 40, 34-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167213501699
Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 109, 4086–4091. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1073/pnas.1118373109
Paul, D., Hill, S., & Ewen, S. (2012). Revealing the (in)competency of “cultural competency” in medical education. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 8, 318–328. Retrieved from http://www.alternative.ac.nz/content/ revealing-incompetency-%E2%80%9Ccultural-competency%E2%80%9D- medical-education
Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A. M. B., Nadal, K. L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. American Psychologist, 62, 271–286. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271
Young-Bruehl, E. (1996). The anatomy of prejudices. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Contact:
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to APS President Joyce Cartor, PhD.
There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between Division 39, APS, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding sources that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. During the program, the validity/utility of the content and risks/limitations of the approaches discussed will be addressed.