About this course

Learning Objectives

• Explain why races do not exist and why racism does
• Identify why and how difficult conversations about racism enhance and increase problem-solving and new ways of relating to differences
• Explain the need to broach difficult and sensitive topics about racism in your own relationships and organizations

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Christopher Carter, MDiv, ThM, PhD, LP, NCPsyA

  Faculty, Center for Real Dialogue

  Christopher Jerome Carter, MDiv, ThM, PhD, LP, NCPsyA is a licensed and certified Jungian analyst who holds a private practice in New York. Before becoming an analyst, Dr. Carter worked in the non-profit sector for over 30 years. His publications include, ‘Time for Space at the Table: an African-American/ Native-American analyst-in- training’s first-hand reflections. A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of C.G. Jung’ (2021), and ‘The Current Role of Analytical Psychology in Maintaining Fictitious Boundaries that are Promoted through the Race Lie: A call to dismantle the virtual wall that exists through attitudes of white supremacy’(2024). Both of these papers appeared in the Journal of Analytical Psychology. With Tiffany Houk, Dr. Carter co-edited, Jungian Reflections on Systematic Racism: Members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice, and Inclusivity (2023, Routledge). He is the recipient of the Gradiva Award for his 2021 article. He is also a listed honoree in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America (2024-2025). Dr. Carter holds membership with the IAAP, Jungian Analytical Association (NY), the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts (PA), American Psychological Association Div. 39, and The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He is an adjunct professor of The Center for Real Dialogue (VT).

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  Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD

  Jungian Analyst, Psychologist, Founder & Director Center for Real Dialogue

  Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a psychologist, writer, speaker, and Jungian analyst who is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Real Dialogue in Vermont. She has published 19 books including, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. She is the co-author, with Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D., of Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness. She maintains a clinical practice in central Vermont. In 2009, Polly received the Otto Weininger Memorial Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for outstanding lifetime contributions to psychoanalysis.

  Polly hosts the popular podcast Waking Up is Not Enough: Flourishing in the Human Space, which examines the current fads, fictions and potentials of psychedelics, meditation and other kinds of awakening. Her podcast ENEMIES: From War to Wisdom provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and a Mindfulness teacher.

Disclosure

References

• Carter, C. J., & Houck, T. (Eds.). (2023). Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism: Members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice and Inclusivity. Taylor & Francis.
• Pieniadz, J., & Young-Eisendrath, P. (2021). Dialogue therapy for couples and real dialogue for opposing sides: Methods based on psychoanalysis and mindfulness. Routledge.
• Carter, C. J. (2024). The Current Role of Analytical Psychology in Maintaining Fictitious Boundaries that are Promoted through the Race Lie: A call to dismantle the virtual wall that exists through attitudes of white supremacy 1. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 69(5), 711-734.
• Carter, C. J. (2021). Time for space at the table: an African American‐Native American analyst‐in‐training’s first‐hand reflections. A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of CG Jung. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66(1), 70-92.
• Young-Eisendrath, P. (1987). The absence of Black Americans as Jungian analysts. Quadrant: Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, 20(2), 41–53.
• Coleman, B. R., & Yantis, C. (2024). Feeling a little uneasy: A comparative discourse analysis of White and BIPOC college students’ reflective writing about systemic racism. Journal of Social Issues, 80(2), 473-495.