Dionne R. Powell, M.D.
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor
Fellow in the Practice of Adult Psychoanalysis, American Board of Psychoanalysis
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Psychoanalytic Association of New York, Affiliated with NYU School of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, the New York Presbyterian Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College
Vice President, American Association of Psychoanalytic Education
Holmes Commission, Commission on Racial Equity at the American Psychoanalytic Association (Co-REAP), co-chair
Executive Committee American Psychoanalytic Association, 2015-2017
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Private Office
295 Central Park West New York, NY 10024
Areas of Interest
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, couple’s treatment, interface between psychiatry and medicine, psycho-oncology, race, cultural diversity and sensitivity, gender, LGBTQ, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic education
Professional Biography
Dr. Powell is currently in full time private practice, supervising candidates, treating late adolescents and adults in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, and couple’s therapy.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
May 2022: Solomon Carter Fuller Award & Lecture, the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
March 1, 2022: Margaret Morgan Lawrence Award & Lecture, the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM), the Society for Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (CUCPTR).
Sunday, February 28, 2021, annual Scientific meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Dr. Dionne R. Powell APsaA's Candidate's Council Master Teacher of the Year award, presentation, entitled: A movement not a moment: sustaining a diverse, racially inclusive approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalytic education.
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. Presenter: Robin Rayford, M.A., Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Discussant: Dionne R. Powell, M.D www.aape-online.org.
SELECTED MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS
In Treatment: Private and Confidential, HBO documentary on psychotherapy, 1st aired Spring 2009.
Psychoanalysis and African Americans: Past, Present and Future, Powell DP in The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Jason Aronson, Inc., Salman Akhtar editor, 2012
Powell, D.R. (2018). Race, African Americans and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66:1021-149 (2019 recipient, JAPA new author prize)
Powell, D. Elizabeth: Appropriated Ambition...A Narrative. in Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership, Routledge Press. Stephanie Brody and Frances Arnold editors, 2019.
From Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner to Get Out: Liberalism as cover for White privilege-Attaining psychic emancipation across the racial divide. In Race in the Therapeutic Encounter. B. Stoute and M. Slevin, editors in press
Powell, D. R., Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Psychotherapy Supervision. In Kennedy, K. & Yeoman, F. (Eds). Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Basics and Beyond. American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Washington, DC, in press.
Powell, D. R., Section editor and chapter contributor on racial and ethnic diversities for 2nd edition of Glen Gabbard’s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments, in press.
COURSES
Psychoanalytic Theories II
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course
Education and Training
Psychiatry residency training program: The Payne Whitney Clinic, Cornell Medical Center, The New York Hospital, New York, NY
Fellowship in Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry (2 years): Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
Psychoanalytic training: Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, NY, NY 1998
Honors
George E. Daniels Award, 2018, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine for contributions to psychoanalysis
2019, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic, new author prize
2020, awarded APsaA's Candidate's Council Master Teacher of the Year award. Award ceremony on February28, 2021 APsaA scientific meeting
2022: Margaret Morgan Lawrence Award & Lecture: The Imperative of Racial Trauma: Truth and Reconciliation in America; Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
2022: Solomon Carter Fuller Award & Lecture, the American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting May 2022. New Orleans, LA