Applications of the Holmes Commission Report: Group Life and Racial Enactments in Psychoanalytic Institutions

• Speaker: SFCP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Steering Committee

• Date: Sat, May 16, 2026

• Time: 1:30 PM ET

• Location: Virtual or In-Person

• Source: San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

"The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee invites SFCP members and our wider community to engage collectively with the Holmes Commission Report on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis.

The Holmes Commission identified racialized enactments within psychoanalytic organizations as a central and often underexamined feature of institutional life. While psychoanalytic training has traditionally emphasized dyadic clinical work, the report calls attention to the ways unconscious dynamics, authority, and group process shape committees, leadership structures, and the transmission of analytic knowledge.

This Scientific Meeting will feature a live interaction exploring a racial enactment within the SFCP DEI Steering Committee to illustrate the relevance of the Holmes Commission’s findings for SFCP and other psychoanalytic institutes today. Drawing on institutional experience and psychoanalytic theory, presenters will consider how racialized group processes emerge, how they are defended against, and what capacities are required for groups and organizations to recognize and work through them."