As part of TI’s ongoing efforts to ensure that our training programs are contributing to positive social change and are supportive of movements throughout the city and the nation that are addressing institutional racism, we are developing the following new initiatives:
New Reading Group
Rossanna Echegoyén, a current TI faculty member and the founder and co-chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, is facilitating a new reading group for agency faculty in order to educate this group on the topic of social justice and to open a dialogue about how these concepts can be integrated into their teaching platforms. These readings are also being made available to our therapists in training via the student portal on the TI website.
New Curriculum Committee
TI has established a new curriculum committee with a goal of identifying and implementing social justice and anti-racist content into our training tracks for emerging mental health professionals. Volunteering to lead this committee is David Castro, who earned his PhD in clinical psychology at the Derner institute at Adelphi university, a psychoanalytically based clinical program. David also completed advanced training in psychoanalysis at IPTAR. He is profoundly knowledgeable about psychoanalytic literature, psychoanalysis, and is a very valued member of our community. In taking on this important role, David’s goal is to help TI become a more competitive Institute and to meet the needs of our large community- both faculty, students, and ultimately the diverse clients the agency serves.
New Center for Social Justice and Diversity
Kristin Wynn, a TI graduate who directs the agency’s Mind and Body Center, is helping to launch our new Center for Social Justice and Diversity. This initiative will be dedicated to ensuring TI is actively engaged in working to address issues pertaining to race, racism, privilege, oppression, and dismantling white supremacy. The center will offer programs and resources that focus on culture, identity, and sexuality, affirming and celebrating diversity and our LGBTQIA2S+ community.