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Digital Seminar

Where do we go from here? Addressing the legacy of racialized trauma on attachments between black people


Speaker:
Anne Aiyegbusi, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour 12 Minutes
Copyright:
Apr 15, 2021
Product Code:
PDR031145
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

In this presentation Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi will offer a trauma informed perspective on the impacts of racialised trauma and injustice on the attachments between black people and people of colour. A generational perspective will be taken and parallels between historical atrocity and present day relations will be made. The question of how we move on from this will be considered?

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Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a group analyst, forensic psychotherapist and mental health nurse.  Her nursing career in the NHS saw her gaining experience in the range of roles ‘from ward to board.’ However, her clinical practice was based in forensic mental health services, including 15 years as a consultant nurse in secure services for women. After taking early retirement she returned to the NHS on a part time basis and manages a clinical network offering training and consultancy to build workforce capacity for supporting people with the diagnosis of personality disorder.  Anne is also a director, psychotherapist and consultant nurse for Psychological Approaches, a community interest company providing training and consultancy to public sector agencies working with complex needs and offending. Anne has published and presented widely in areas relating to complex trauma and attachment issues, especially as related to forensic services, ‘personality disorder’ women’s mental health and racism. 

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a practicing psychotherapist, consultant nurse, and group analyst. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. and receives royalties as a published author. She is an instructor at the Queen Mary University of London. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Group Analysis and serves as the Chair of the Training Committee for the Governance Working Group, Diversity in Training Group, and Forensic Psychotherapy Society.


Objectives

  1. Analyze the treatment implications regarding the effect of intergenerational trauma on attachments between black people and people of color. 
  2. Construct a framework to understand the legacy of racialized trauma as it relates to case conceptualization. 
  3. Integrate the neurological and physical implications of racialized trauma in relation to assessment and treatment planning. 

Outline

Manifestations of racism in the present day 

  • Race disparities 
  • Modern-day lynchings by law enforcement 
  • Reporting to police for living while black 
  • Health and Life expectancy disparities - racial weathering 
  • Disproportionate incarceration rates 
  • Higher rates of mental illness/psychological detention 
  • Underrepresented access to psychological therapies 

Traumatic history of imperialism underpinning racism 

  • Invasion 
  • Colonization 
  • Plunder 

Psychological processes shaping and upholding racist conceptualizations 

  • ‘Redefinition’ in slave ships to thinking of oneself as a commodity rather than a human being 
  • Gaslighting deception 
  • Multiple pathologizing deceptions to conceal motivation 
  • ‘Race’ with its hierarchy 
  • Civilizing influence and salvation 
  • Spreading democracy 
  • Dependence and governance (childlike) 

Implications of racist trauma and experience for attachments 

  • Trauma impacts the ability to connect with other people 
  • The sense of being dead, disconnection 
  • Wider social environment needs to be considered in attachment theory 
  • Attachment system mediates generational trauma and repetition through internal working models 
  • Racism carries the weight of multiple forms of trauma 

Generational transmission 

  • ‘Body to body - generation to generation’ 
  • Trauma routinely spreads between bodies 
  • Someone with unhealed trauma may try to soothe it by blowing it through another person 
    • Perpetuating trauma on another person 

Processes that enable intergenerational trauma 

  • Unconscious deposits in the developing psyches of children 
  • Unmourned loss (chronically grieving caregivers) 
  • Overwhelming stories being talked about in front of children 
  • Behavioral manifestations of unprocessed trauma 
  • Blowing it through other people’s bodies 
  • Body to body closeness and vagal nerve to vagal nerve closeness 

Neurological and physical implications of racialized trauma 

  • Reptilian/lizard brain 
  • Fight, flight, freeze, flop (collapse), friend (align themselves with threat person) 
  • Racialized trauma lodges powerfully here in reptilian brain, subject to triggers 
  • Vagus/Soul Brain 
  • Highly sensitive and vulnerable to trauma, to other people and environment 
  • Registers visceral reactions 
  • Reptilian.brain and vagal nerve very reactive to racial trauma 

Intergenerational trauma and its impacts 

  • Illegitimizing, tearing apart and dispersal of families/attachments 
  • Brutalization, terrorism, rape, and murder of attachment figures encourage avoidant style of attachment to protect against potential pain 
  • Commodification of the black body internalized and passed on generationally 
  • Criminalization and threat to life of ‘subordination” (or disrespect) relating to black youth killing one another for signs of disrespect 
  • Dehumanization and denigration of blackness 
  • Preference for lighter complexions - shadism 
  • Shame and internalization of the oppressor’s shame 
  • Identification with aggressor 

Environments in big cities are so traumatic its unimaginable 

  • Lack of opportunities to escape (repetition of earlier generation’s traumas) 
  • Unrecognized mental health problems 
  • Combination of terror and numbing 
  • Culture of not talking about feelings 
  • Very little access to help 
  • Rap/drill music expresses pain underlying violence, crimes, drug dealing, misogyny 
  • Vilified music shuts down expressions of pain - silencing 
  • Cuts to resources - spaces and services that could offer support 

Role of whiteness in upholding this trauma at a societal, institutional level, individual level 

  • Operates outside the conscious awareness of those identified with it 
  • Whiteness is highly visible to those who are not identified with it and who feel its impact 
  • White ignorance 
  • White fragility 
  • White gaze 
  • White privilege 

Where do we go from here? 

  • Address our paradigms and trainings 
  • Education - honestly linking past with present 
  • Elucidate ‘whiteness’ and its role in upholding status quo 
  • Clarify impact of racialized trauma in attachment and internalized models of relationships in a wider sense 
  • Address body trauma 
  • Address the restructuring of the educational and therapeutic systems to incorporate therapists who are able to understand and address this intergenerational  trauma 

Target Audience

  • Psychotherapists
  • Counsellors
  • IAPT practitioners
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Nurses, Psychiatrists
  • GPs
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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