Second Fridays – March
March 13th, 2026
International Visiting Scholar Gail Lewis
April 11th, 2026
International Visiting Scholar Gail Lewis
Racial Trauma in the Afterlife of the Middle Passage: From Plantation to Provision Ground
Gail Lewis, Discussant Jyoti Rao, MFT
Saturday Apr 11, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Day With International Visiting Scholar Gail Lewis
In this talk Gail Lewis addresses the issue of racial trauma through the register of two Black Feminist approaches to subject formation, and briefly, the concept of Black Rage as theorized by Beverly J. Stout. The two black feminist approaches are intersectionality and, what I am calling ‘Black Feminism Otherwise’ (sometimes called ‘black study’). Following Stout, she suggests that their respective conceptualizations of the making of subjects and subjectivities provide a key resource for clinical work and I hope to show this through reference to a single case of a black man with whom I worked psychodynamically.
CE Credits offered: 5
Course Objectives
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- describe racial trauma through two feminist approaches: intersectionality and 'Black Feminism Otherwise' (or, 'black study')
- explain the intersectionality of gender, race, class, and sexuality as the inseparability of structures, processes and representations as materialized in bodies, experiences and minds
- describe Black Rage as functional adaption to repeated traumatizing experience
- formulate the concept of Black Rage as an intermediate space of symbolization
- discuss how attention to music can awaken clinically-important listening skills
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Hybrid event hosted at PINC
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Event Fee(s)
| Admission | |
| Non-Member | $180.00 |
| PINC Member | $140.00 |
| Student or Candidate or CMH | $100.00 |
| CE Credits (5) | $50.00 |
| Register by 3/21 | -$30.00 |