John Watkins, PhD, ABPP – Co-Chair EDI Committee
Ted Ellenhorn, PhD, ABPP – Co-chair EDI Committee, Diversity Representative to the ABPP Board of Trustees Diversity Committee
Diversity, Anti-racism and Racial Equality, and Social Justice Statement
The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology recognizes the institutional historical and current oppression, marginalization and exclusion of racial and ethnic minorities; people disadvantaged socioeconomically; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the field of psychoanalysis. We commit ourselves to addressing our own institutional and personal racism and practices that generate and support racial inequality through continual institutional and personal self-exploration and correction of unconscious and unacknowledged racism, as well as more overt forms of underrepresentation and exclusion. This means acquiring and maintaining our awareness of the historical and present obstacles to equal and just relationships with all people, and by developing a deeper appreciation of how our race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, and sexual orientation organize our worldview, histories, values, prejudices, and use of power. ABAPPP is dedicated to the development and growth of an increasingly open and diverse organization by supporting and including the engagement of members from varying backgrounds based on race, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual and gender expression. ABAPPP works to promote an understanding of how psychoanalytic theories influence clinical practice with people from oppressed and disenfranchised racial and ethnic identifications, sexual orientations, and gender variances.
Multicultural Guidelines
The Psychoanalysis specialty has incorporated the 2017 APA Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach to Context, Identity, and Intersectionality into its foundational competencies for Board certification.
