Facilitated by:

Carlos Padrón, MA, MPhil

Licensed Psychoanalyst

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Group description:

In becoming allied with the more scientific psychiatric establishment, classical psychoanalysis in the United States distanced itself from the problems of society; and, more specifically, from those of the poor and working class, many of whom were people of color.  This detachment from the socio-political world was paralleled by the proverbial silent analyst, a supposed blank screen that reflects to the patient their interpsychic life, with no reference to society or culture... More