Powell, Dionne MD

Dr. Powell is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (NYC) and The Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) (NYU affiliated), and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical Center in NYC. Dr. Powell has spoken and written extensively about race, racism, and gender issues. Most recent presentations include: January 9th, 2021. An American Association for Psychoanalytic Education (AAPE) Zoom Webinar: Race Matters in Psychoanalytic Education: Exploring conflicts for analytic trainees of color and resistance to change. 2pm to 5pm EST.. Registration on www.aape-online.org On Sunday, January 30, 2021, 12-2PM: Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House: Lost in the Labyrinth of Race and Identity. Presenter: Guillermo Valdes, MD. Discussant: Dionne R. Powell, M.D. On Sunday, February 28, 2021 (11AM-1PM) at the annual American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) scientific meeting Dr. Dionne R. Powell will be awarded APsaA's Candidate's Council Master Teacher of the Year award, that includes a presentation, entitled: A movement not a moment: sustaining a diverse, racially inclusive approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalytic education. Recent publications includes the 2018 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) paper Race African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation, that won the JAPA prize in 2019, and From the Sunken Place to the Shitty Place: The Film Get Out, Psychic Emancipation and Modern Race Relations from a Psychodynamic Clinical Perspective, 2020, in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly; and Dr. Powell is Section Editor for racial and ethnic diversity for Glen Gabbard's Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments, Second Edition, that is in development. Dr. Powell is in full time private practice.