Interrupting Intergenerational Racial Trauma

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Interrupting Intergenerational Racial Trauma
Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Six

With Michela Biseo
Michela Biseo’s talk and discussion is the sixth and final talk in our series on early relationships and mental health, designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings.

Michela will explore a powerful case from her practice, Mixed Heritage, Mixed Feelings: Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy during the Coronavirus Pandemic, Aiming to Interrupt Intergenerational Racial Trauma. She will offer insight into the complexities of working as a white therapist with a mixed-heritage single mother and her newborn son, focusing on the impact of racial trauma and disrupted attachment. Michela will highlight the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic, discussing how the shift to online therapy opened space for exploring racial trauma, colorist abuse, and the societal ‘Ghosts’ that echo in parent-infant relationships. Through this case, she will emphasize the importance of cultural humility, self-reflection, and the therapist’s role in addressing both the ‘Ghosts in the nursery’ and the ‘Ghosts in society.’

Michela originally trained as a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist (ACP). She is also a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist (BPC) and was formerly the lead of a Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service at the Anna Freud Centre in London. Along with her team, including Tessa Baradon also speaking in this series, Michela co-authored The Principles & Practice of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: “Claiming the Baby” in 2016.

If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com)

This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2.

For full information see https://trtogether.com

For information about Tavistock Relationships visit https://tavistockrelationships.org

For information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.uk

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