A Community Presentation
Speaking About Race VI:
“Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma”
with Dr. Dionne R. Powell
Saturday, November 15, 2025
9:30 am -12:30 pm Pacific Time
in person or via zoom
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Presenter: Dr. Dionne R. Powell
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Racism, and otherness, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality, racism is held in silence and resistance, inhibiting exploration of this aspect of mind. By closely examining how and where the analyst/psychotherapist locates themselves racially and working through our resistance and countertransference to this type of exploration, this paper invites us to include these aspects of mind for our analytic use. This paper expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components. Using examples from the creative arts and clinical vignettes to demonstrate how being raced, as a universal phenomenon, is embodied and symbolized in mind, opens a therapeutic aperture for clinicians who may benefit from a psychoanalytic, intrapsychic perspective on this aspect of our shared humanity.
We hope you’ll join us! The annual Speaking About Race event is an opportunity for our entire community to come together to reflect and grow on the topic of race. This co-sponsored event is a unique chance to learn side by side. We believe these discussions are more important than ever.
As part of our commitment to supporting collective well-being, we plan to donate 10% of the proceeds to the Therapy Fund Foundation, a local group whose mission is to increase access to mental health care for Black and Indigenous individuals. Your participation helps make a difference—let’s fill the room! Everyone is welcome, and everyone is needed.
Arrive early to enjoy a continental breakfast from 9:00-9:30.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this presentation participants will:
- Demonstrate a greater awareness of transgenerational racial trauma and its formation in mind.
- Understand how this form of trauma affects the clinical situation, especially the clinicians’ approach.
- Learn to work clinically with transgenerational trauma.
About the Presenter
Dionne R. Powell, MD is a nationally recognized psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and educator whose work explores the intersections of race, trauma, and psychoanalysis. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at both Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY-NYU affiliated). She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, and as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College.
A graduate of Stanford University and Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Powell brings deep clinical insight and a compelling voice to conversations on transgenerational racial trauma, identity, and systemic oppression. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equity in American Psychoanalysis, Vice-President of the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education, and North American Representative to the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Board.
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General Public:
After Sept 1 $200.00 USD
Alliance, COR, NPSI, SPSI, WCPSI Members:
After Sept 1 $180.00 USD
Student (Undergraduate, Graduate, Medical Resident, Analytic Candidate):
After Sept 1 $110.00 USD
CME: 3.0 pending approval by APsA
Sponsored by: Alliance, COR, NPSI, SPSI, WCPSI
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ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association, hosted by Seattle Psychanalytic Society and Institute & partner institutes, Alliance, Center for Object Relations, and Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
This presentation meets the requirements of WAC 246-924-240 (Definition of Category of Creditable CPE). This program has been approved for 3 CEUs by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors are eligible. Provider number is #1975-144.
