Upcoming Events

Presenter: Cherian Verghese, International Speaker
Topic: Fantasies of Whiteness and the Triangulation of ‘Model Minorities’ to maintain the Black-White Split
Date: Thursday evening 27th March 2025
Time: 19h30 – 21h00
Where: Zoom
Free for CTPSPG members

We are continuing our theme of Racial Complexity with International Speaker Cherian Verghese.

In January this year we had a wonderful discussion between Thato Letsatsi and Megan Barber about Thato’s paper The Complexity of my Blackness, followed in Feb by another great discussion between them about Megan’s paper Context, Race, Power, and Culture: The third in the therapeutic dyad. Both these papers were presented at IAPSP’s International Online Conference in May 2024, and have received fantastic feedback. 

At this same IAPSP International Online Conference in May 2024, Cherian Verghese, was one of the discussants of both Megan and Thato’s papers, along with our own Amanda Kottler (one of CTPSPG’s Founders and IAPSP Emeritus Council Member).

He will Zoom in live to present to us.

Reading: Verghese, C. (2024, in press). Fantasies of Whiteness and the Triangulation of ‘Model Minorities’ to maintain the Black-White split: Implications for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies.

A little more about Cherian:

Cherian Verghese, Ph.D., is a private practice Psychologist in Washington, DC where he conducts individual and couple therapy and clinical supervision.  A graduate of the Psychotherapy Training Program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Cherian later directed that program and has been on their faculty for over 20years.  He is Founding and Steering Committee member of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture at the Washington School of Psychiatry where he also taught in the Supervision Training program.  Most recently, he has written and presented on a variety of topics, including Color of Rage: Contextualizing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Race, Melancholia, and the Fantasy of Whiteness; Color of Rage: Contextualizing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; and Historical and Cultural Embeddedness of Psychoanalytic Theory/Founders. In 2001, Cherian founded SAMHA-South Asian Mental Health Association, an informal networking and discussion group in the Washington DC region.