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While in its beginnings psychodynamic treatment once had a strong commitment to social justice, this stance has eroded as this orientation became subsumed within the American medical model. As a Program rooted in West Harlem, City College’s clinical psychology program has long sought to integrate a dynamic understanding of the patient from the “inside out”, with a nuanced examination of the “outside in” impacts of racism in its multitude of forms. This presentation will provide a review of how we have wrestled with this interplay of “inside” and “outside”, focusing on its successes and limitations, and its ongoing struggle to be better.
Steve Tuber, Ph.D., ABPP is a clinician, professor and author who is in his 36th year at City College’s Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, where he has served as Director of Clinical Training for over 20 years. Dr. Tuber writes and speaks extensively on the intertwining aspects of psychodynamic diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults. His specific areas of focus have been the works of Donald Winnicott, the use of projective tasks in understanding personality and the utility of play therapy in ameliorating emotional problems in childhood.