Newsfeed > Statement from NCP in response to the current public health crisis in Los Angeles and the U.S.
We are now living through two grave public health crises. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the dramatically heightened danger of death to members of our communities of color. At the same time, racialized violence has taken the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery. They now join the horrific pantheon of individuals who have senselessly lost their lives to anti-Black racism in America. The New Center for Psychoanalysis condemns both the injustices that contribute to the inequities of health care outcomes in our community and the exercise of white supremacy in all of its many manifestations.
The New Center for Psychoanalysis acknowledges the life-threatening consequences for all those denied equal access to medical services and therefore the need to redouble efforts to more fully offer our services to all. We pledge to use this moment of crisis to examine our practices and procedures that perpetuate or fail to disrupt and dismantle racism.
NCP commits itself to:
- Enhance awareness of our blind spots and unconscious bias to grow both in our consulting rooms and as a psychoanalytic institute.
- Implement practices that better serve the mental health needs of all members of the Los Angeles community, and the Black community in particular.
- Promote greater opportunities for the training of mental health professionals, especially for those in the Black community, recognizing that they continue to be glaringly underrepresented in the ranks of our profession.
Paulene Popek, President, on behalf of
New Center for Psychoanalysis