Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Anancia Stafford, EdD completed her masters and doctoral work at Governor’s State University, where she studied the relationship between race, identity and college attrition among African American male college students. She currently works with individuals and adults in the Loop and in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I recently sat down with Dr. Stafford to explore how race and identity can play into the therapeutic process.

The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Overview of Dr. Jonathan Shedler’s Recent Research

The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Overview of Dr. Jonathan Shedler’s Recent Research

Danielle Trudeau, MA

What does psychodynamic therapy look like? How do we know it works? A leading psychoanalyst named Dr. Jonathan Shedler published an article in 2010 intended to demonstrate that psychodynamic therapy provably offers profound, permanent self-understanding and emotional relief.

Propaganda, Prostitution, and Penal Reform: How Psychoanalysis Lost its Public Voice

Propaganda, Prostitution, and Penal Reform: How Psychoanalysis Lost its Public Voice

Flora Lazar, PhD LCSW
The American Psychoanalyst
Volume 53, No 2, Spring/Summer 2019

Flora Lazar’s article considers the sociocultural frontier of psychoanalysis and its educational mission. It addresses the responsibilities and opportunities of psychoanalysis in the public domain and is informed by innovative archival research. The article offers a critique of the consequences of insularity in the consultation room.