Applying psychoanalysis to community mediation: An alternative to racist criminalization by the courts

Christine Schmidt is a psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York and a mediator with the New York Peace Institute. She leads workshops about racial literacy and whiteness for psychotherapy organizations. She is on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society and co-chairs the Work Group for Racial Equity. Her written work includes “Confronting Racism: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Community” (Grawbow, ed.) in Progressive Psychoanalysis as a Social Justice Movement (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2017), in press “Anatomy of Racial Micro-Aggressions” in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 68 (3), and in press “Don’t Shy Away from Race Prejudice” in Group 42 (1).
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