CF 661, Diversity, Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation

 

Class Dates: Feb 13, Feb. 23, Mar. 9, Mar. 23,
Apr. 17, Apr. 27, May 11, May 25
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

On-Site Classes: Feb. 13 and Apr. 17 @ 1:45 pm

Instructor: Mauricio Cifuentes, LCSW
Contact information: E-mail address: maujoci@yahoo.com                      
                                     Phone number: (773) 972-4552

 

Required Texts: 

• Roy Moodley and Stephen Palmer, Race, Culture and Psychotherapy: Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (NY: Routledge, 2006).
• Other assigned readings. See Syllabus.

 

Course Requirements:

1.  Attendance and relevant participation in class and on blog site.  
-- 25% of final grade. 

2.  Scheduled summary of assigned reading. 
The summary of assigned readings must be posted no later than two days before the class. -- 25% of final grade.

3.  Scheduled case discussion presentations based on topic of the day.  
The case presentations must be posted no later than two days before the class. -- 25% of final grade.
 
4. Final Paper of 10-12 pages responding to the question: How do you understand the place or significance of race, gender and sexuality in your clinical work?   This is a theoretical paper not a case presentation though you may refer to specific clinical work for illustrative purposes.  -- 25% of final grade.

Paper is due May 25, 2010. Late papers will not be accepted.

 

Course Outline:

2/13    Assignment:  (On-Site Class)

• Moodley and Palmer, Chapters 1, 4,

2/23     Assignment:

• Moodley and Palmer, Chapters 5, 6, 7

3/09    Assignment:

• Moodley and Palmer, Chapters 8, 9, 10, 12

3/23    Assignment:

• Adrienne Harris, “Misogyny: Hatred at Close Range” in Donald Moss, editor Hating in the First Personal Plural: Psychoanalytic Essays on Racism, Homophobia, Misogyny and Terror (NY: The Other Press, 2003)
  
• Donald Moss, “Internalized Homophobia in Men: Wanting in the First Person Singular, Hating in the First Person Plural” in Donald Moss, editor Hating in the First Personal Plural: Psychoanalytic Essays on Racism, Homophobia, Misogyny and Terror (NY: The Other Press, 2003)

4/17    Assignment:

• Nancy J. Chodorow, “Heterosexuality as a Compromise Formation: Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual Development” Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 15:267-304.  PEP

4/27  Assignment:  (On-Site Class)

• Moodley and Palmer, Chapter 13
• Beverly Burch, “Lesbian Sexuality/Female Sexuality Searching for Sexual Subjectivity” Psychoanalytic Review, 85:349-372. PEP

             Video and Discussion:  “You Don’t Know Dick”

5/11    Assignment:

• Jane Flax, “The Scandal of Desire: Psychoanalysis and Disruptions of Gender: A Meditation on Freud's Three Essays on The Theory of Sexuality” Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 40:47-68. PEP
• Danielle Knafo, “Anti-Semitism in the Clinical Setting: Transference and Countertransference Dimensions”  1999, JAPA, 47: 35-63. PEP

5/25   Assignment:

• Moodley and Palmer, Chapters 3, 21

             Final paper due

 

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