Scientific Conferences

Thinking Together Without Falling Apart

A Day in Conversation with

Beverly J. Stoute, MD

Saturday, May 10, 2025

 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

E pluribus unum: An American Fantasy?
Presentation Open to the Community
George Washington University Hospital Auditorium

 2.5 CE

Live Presentation Only Must be able to attend in person. No Zoom option is available Limited Space Available – Register Today!

Presenter Bio:

Beverly J. Stoute, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAP, FABP, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, leadership advisor and organizational consultant, is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, and leader in the field of psychoanalysis. A Training and Supervising Analyst at Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Stoute is on the faculty of the Emory University and Morehouse Schools of Medicine and has taught in the Leadership Fellows Program of the Emory Goizueta Business School. A Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, she has received many awards in many areas. Dr. Stoute has developed, moderated, and presented over 150 panels and programs nationally and internationally. Her scholarly work, featured in the archives of the Freud Museum in London, has been translated into German, Spanish, and Portuguese. She has held multiple leadership positions, including on the Executive Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association and as a Co-Chair of The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. Drawing on thirty years of experiences as an educator, clinician, consultant and executive coach and leadership advisor, Dr. Stoute has collaborated with professionals at all stages of career and professional development in not-for-profit organizations, academic medical centers, universities, mental health training programs, community mental health, boards of education, business, and the law. Her 2023 book, co-edited with Michael Slevin is entitled The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter. She maintains a full-time private practice of child, adolescent and adult psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, family therapy, supervision, organizational consultation, and leadership advising in Atlanta, GA.

Abstract:

Cultural and historical attitudes about race and gender shape our perceptions of ourselves. The psychodynamic process of “Othering” occurs when our cultural and historical identities organize our perceptions of whom we define as the in group (“us”) and the out-group (“them”). The need to see the world as “us” versus “them” undermines the advantages that pluralism brings. Understanding how othering enactments play out requires us to reflect on the question, as Fanon did, how does culture seep into our minds? What can psychoanalysis offer us in understanding these dynamics? When othering dominates and polarizing interactions occur between individuals and groups, what does E pluribus unum, “out of many one” mean? Can a shared group identity ever become a reality? Case examples will be used to illustrate how we can think together about these questions.

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