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The African American Jungian Analysts:
On Culture, Clinical Training/Practice and Racism

Rotimi Akinsete’s interview with Gary Younge

In this video, counsellor Rotimi Akinsete interviews Gary Younge, journalist, author and Professor of Sociology at University of Manchester, about the experiences of Black therapists and other therapists and clients of colour.

Featuring Fanny Brewster, PhD

Join Fanny Brewster, internationally renowned expert on Culture, Diversity and Creativity, to hear about the clinical impact of problematic and prejudicial attitudes towards Black and other people of colour in the early days of Jungian analysis and psychoanalysis.

Featuring Alan Vaughan PhD, JD

In this video, author and psychologist Alan Vaughan discusses the clinical dynamics of race and racism through the lens of psychology, mythology and law.

Featuring Helen Morgan

Join Jungian Analyst and former BPC Chair Helen Morgan as she provides you with a rich lesson on the history of racial issues in the UK and the US. This talk is sure to help broaden your understanding of the issues your clients are facing and close the racial gap between client and therapist.

Panel discussion with Alan Vaughan, Fanny Brewster, and Helen Morgan

In this panel discussion, our expert panelists discuss how best race and racism might be addressed in trainings for psychotherapy and counselling.

Featuring Fanny Brewster and Alan Vaughan

In this video, you’ll gain an understanding of the artistic and cultural contributions made by Black individuals and learn their importance for the healing of racial trauma and division.

Featuring

Rotimi Akinsete is a therapeutic counsellor and clinical supervisor with extensive experience in community and NHS counselling services. He is founder and director of Black Men on the Couch, a special interest project focussing on psychotherapy and identity politics of African and Caribbean men and boys.

Fanny Brewster, PhD is a Core Faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Prior to beginning in this capacity she served for five years as Adjunct Faculty working within the Depth, Archetypal and Jungian Psychology (DJA), and Depth Psychotherapy Departments (DPT), while maintaining a New York City private practice.

Eugene Ellis is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and the founder of The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), a network of therapists passionately engaged in addressing the psychological needs of Black and Asian people in Britain, and in raising positive awareness of counselling and psychotherapy within the Black and Asian community.

Alan Vaughan PhD, JD, is an member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and in private practice as an Analyst, and a clinical and consulting psychologist in Oakland, California. He serves on the core faculty of the clinical psychology programme at Saybrook University.

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and columnist for The Guardian, based in London.

Helen Morgan is a Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and a training analyst and supervisor for the Jungian Analytic Association within the BPF. She works mainly in private practice as an analyst and also supervises in both the individual and the group setting. Her background is in therapeutic communities both with adolescents and in adult mental health. She is interested in developing an understanding of racism from a psychoanalytic/Jungian analytic perspective and has written a number of papers on the subject.