Allen Chukwuhdi is a psycho-historian who attended Fordham University where he received a B.A in both history and psychology. His journey in psychology began with organizational
behavior, and then quickly moved to clinical and research psychology. He is currently in the
‘Culture Program’ at (BGSP) the ‘Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis’. However, it was
his enthusiasm for history, specifically African and African American history, and the trans-
Atlantic slave trade that moved him to employ psychology and psychoanalysis. He is active in
the BGSP Student Association (2023) and the (APA) ‘American Psychological Association’ Div. 39 and Div. 9 (SPSSI) the ‘Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ where he served as the Graduate Student Committee’s (GSC) Diversity Officer (2021). Moreover, he was the recipient of the (NYSPA) New York State Psychological Association’s ‘Roy Aranda Student Social Justice Award in 2020’ and was the opening presenter at the University of Western Cape, in South Africa ‘Towards a De-Colonial Psychology: Theories from the Global South Conference in 2019’. He is interested in colonialism and by extension the coloniality of being, as well as the societal psychosis of racism. He is also interested in developing psychological interventions in Black communities that incorporate cultural solutions and using history to develop identity cohesion and to challenge constructed narratives.

He is currently writing a psycho-historical account of colonialism in West Africa using the
overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah as an example entitled, ‘Kwame Nkrumah and The Language of Oppression’ and a book on the Lacanian psychoanalytic notion of ‘Mirror Stages’. One of his essays ‘Storming the Capital: An Exercise in the Patriot Right to Violence’ was recently
published in the book ‘Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of Critical Race
Theory’, and he is revising a paper entitled ‘Hauntings: Transgenerational Trauma and the
Unfinished Business of a Nation’ for the ‘Journal of the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society’, and his paper on identity entitled ‘The Myth of the Black Indian: A Collective Fantasy’ is going to be published in Volume 1 of the new journal ‘Psychoanalytic Inquiry’.

In addition to all this he is a producing artist that has numerous credits on stage, in commercials and films.