MONDAY NIGHT SEMINAR - September 9, 2024
 on Zoom
“How Am I Responsible?”:  Evangelical White Rage and Moral Injury in the Interpassive Perpetration of White-Body Supremacy 

with Paul Hoard, Ph.D. & Earl Bland, Psy.D.

Program Description
This seminar reflects on the psychological impact of perpetrating trauma and suffering at the level of social structure and communal practice.  We explore a nuanced psychoanalytic conceptual formulation of the normative unconscious processes inherent in the maintenance and manifestation of racialized structures within contemporary American white evangelical culture.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
 
1.         Participants will discuss and apply the impact of normative unconscious processes in the perpetration of structural racism
2.         Participants will identify and analyze clinical and educational experiences of moral injury and interpassive perpetration.  
3.         Participants will assess and evaluate the contributions of certain theological stances to the maintenance of racialized cultural structures. 
 
About the Presenters
 
Paul Hoard, Ph.D.
 
Paul Hoard, Ph.D., is a licensed counselor with a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision from Regent University.  He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, having graduated from the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, and has received specialized training and credentialing in working with adolescents with sexual behavior problems.  An approved clinical supervisor, he has provided mental health counseling as well as clinical supervision in the USA, Ukraine, and Turkey.  He served on the State of Kansas Multi-Disciplinary Team responsible for evaluating potential sexually violent predators.  Currently, he holds a position as an associate professor in counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.  His research and scholarly work primarily focus on the intersection of perpetration trauma, sexuality, eucontamination, white-body supremacy, and adolescent mental health.  Dr. Hoard also provides outpatient mental health counseling and clinical supervision services.