Description:
OPD Points: 5
Yvette Esprey offers a framework for thinking about race and racial identity in the therapeutic encounter.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
In this challenging and illuminating talk, Yvette Esprey offers a framework for thinking about race and racial identity in the therapeutic encounter, suggesting that a relational psychoanalytic framework allows for the consideration of how race impacts on subjectivity of both clients and therapists, and how racial dynamics impact on the therapeutic process. Yvette focuses on an awareness of racial dynamics as an ethical imperative, essential to good practice.
Presenter / Provider:
Yvette Esprey
Presenter Qualifications:
Yvette has Masters degrees in both Clinical and Industrial Psychology. She has lectured at Wits University, Rhodes and UCT and is also part of the faculty as a guest lecturer on trauma and race and psychotherapy at Smith College, Northhampton MA, USA. Yvette has worked as the head psychologist on the Psychotherapy unit at Tara Hospital and has been a consultant to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.She is currently in private practice in Johannesburg and is a member of the Discovery Health expert panel for Psychological services. She has specific interests in psychoanalytic theory, borderline personality disorders, trauma, and the intersection of race and psychotherapy.Yvette is currently working on her PHD on issues of race, racism and racialised identities in the South African therapeutic context.
