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SUMMARY:Everyday Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:The latest in the series of online seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis.\n\n\nEveryday Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism\nIvan Ward\nRespondent: Anne Aiyegbusi\nRacial Trauma as an Unlaid Ghost of Empire\nChair: Anshu Srivastava (Guild of Psychotherapists)\nThis is the latest in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar\, Ivan Ward analyses the psycho-political effects of racist assumptions that are a continuing legacy of colonialism. \nPlease note that a recording of the seminar will be available to ticket-holders for a full year after the event. \nImage caption\nFrom the ‘Snapshots of Empire’ blog\, University of Sussex. ‘What are the British Empire’s “Legacies”?’ by Professor Alan Lester. https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofempire/2022/10/10/what-are-the-british-empires-legacies/ \n\n\n  \nAbout this seminar \nEveryday Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism Ivan Ward\nThis paper is about ‘everyday racism’ and is an attempt to describe something of the atmosphere in which people of colour live their lives in white-majority societies. It does not address the ‘big picture’ of structural\, systemic or institutional racism\, or the continuing underdevelopment of the global South. \nUsing my own experiences and those of others in white-majority societies\, it looks at the legacy of colonialism in examples of ‘low-level’ everyday racism – the ways in which micro-aggressions operate to create a racialised ‘other’ and to ‘put you in your place’ through covert threats\, shame\, humiliation\, infantalisation\, criminalisation and so on. Written in a non-academic style\, it will show that even well-meaning and seemingly benign social interactions may be infused with unconsciously held racist beliefs and stereotypes that are a legacy of colonialism and can have a debilitating effect on the person of colour. I will argue that the task of ‘decolonising’ is a psychological as well as socio-politico-economic process. \n  \n\n\n\n  \nSpeakers’ Biographies \nIvan Ward is the former Deputy Director and Head of Learning at the Freud Museum London\, where he worked for 33 years. Born in Hackney\, London\, in the mid-1950s\, he is a mixed-race father of two girls and author or editor of a number of books and papers on psychoanalytic theory and the applications of psychoanalysis to social and cultural issues. Now semi-retired\, he works part-time on the FreePsy research project at the University of Essex\, UK\, which investigates the past history and current practices of socially engaged\, free and low-cost psychoanalytically-informed therapeutic collectives. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit. Recent publications include: ‘Everyday Racism: Psychological Effects‘ (2022) in The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter edited by Beverly J. Stoute and Michael Slevin (Routledge) and ‘Reflections on the object of racism’ (2024) in Journal of Psychosocial Studies Vol. 17 issue 2. Bristol University Press. \nDr Anne Aiyegbusi is a forensic psychotherapist\, group analyst\, supervisor\, organisational consultant and registered mental health nurse. She works part time in the NHS as a principal psychotherapist and group analyst. Anne is also a director\, consultant nurse\, psychotherapist and group analyst with Psychological Approaches CIC\, an independent training and consultancy company which primarily supports service delivery within forensic mental health and criminal justice settings. She is President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP) and course convenor for the IGA Diploma in Group Work Practice – Forensic Settings. Anne has presented and published regularly\, nationally and internationally\, and is currently writing a book about forensic psychotherapy and racial trauma. \n\n\n  \nBursary tickets \nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend without financial assistance. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a full year after the event.\nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\n  \nPrevious seminar recordings are available here –\nhttps://vimeo.com/ondemand/decolonisinganalysis \n\n\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/everyday-racism-and-the-legacy-of-colonialism/
LOCATION:England
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