DON’T MISS: Mass Incarceration Webinar with Dr. Elizabeth Kita

They Hate Me Now, But Where Was Everyone When I Needed Them?: Mass Incarceration Through A Psychoanalytic Lens

Mass incarceration has been explored from economic, political, legal and sociological perspectives. Viewed through a psychoanalytic lens, another dimension becomes visible: the ways in which mass incarceration also serves a psychological, largely unconscious, defensive function against collective anxieties related to race and class in the United States. Dr. Elizabeth Kita explores the ways in which the dehumanization and criminalization of certain members of society force them to function as repositories for the unbearable aspects of our otherwise shared humanity, and how thinking psychoanalytically about mass incarceration helps to reveal the work we must do as a collective to wrest ourselves from it. 

UCLA Social Medicine Grand Rounds are sponsored by the Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment.   

Join us!  12:30 – 2:00 pm, Friday, October 16, 2020

 Zoom Link: https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/92697424856

Elizabeth Kita, PhD, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in public & private practice in San Francisco, California. Her practice in a public clinic is primarily with people who have returned to the community after serving life sentences; in her private practice, she specializes in working with people who are suffering from complex PTSD, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization. She also teaches in the MSW program at UC Berkeley, and co-chairs the Coalition for Clinical Social Work (CCSW) at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). Dr. Kita is a member of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.