The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter

ISBN-13: 9781032247472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str.

Beverly J. Stoute; Michael Slevin

Opis

The Trauma of Racism is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of analytic exposition, the authors expose racism’s searing effects on personal, clinical, and community interactions while providing pathways for change.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Historical Perspectives  1. Racism and Health Equity: A Challenge for the Therapeutic Dyad  2. Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in Our Nursery, 2nd edition  3. Race, African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation  Part 2: Living with the Trauma of Racism  4. African American Boys: Adolescents Under the Shadow of Slavery's Legacy  5. Loss, Grief, and Fear in Everyday Lives of African American Women  6. Everyday Racisim: Psychological Effects  7. Thinking Clinically about Post-Traumatic Reactions to Racial Trauma  8. From the Racially Provocative to the Evocative: Shaping the Destiny of the Racist Moment  9. "And How Are the Children?": Intergenerational Trauma and the Development of Black Children in America  10. Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression  11. Observations on the Use of the N-Word  Part 3: Learning and Re-Learning Race  12. Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin's America  13. From Multicultural Competence to Radical Openness: A Psychoanalytic Engagement of Otherness  14. On Psychoanalysis, Race and Class in an Urban ER  Part 4: Being Aware of White Privilege  15. How I Came to Understand White Privilege  16. On Racism and Being White: The Journey to Henry's Restaurant  17. "Am I the Only Black Kid that Comes Here?"  18. White Privilege and its Fissures: A Personal Perspective  19. "It Takes One to Know One"  20. Psychoanalysis by Surprise: An Ad Hoc Experiment in Community Psychoanalysis on a South African Wine Farm  Part 5: Interpreting Racism in Jordan Peele's "Get Out"  21. Get Out of My Head: Experiencing Cultural Paranoia in Jordan Peele's "Get Out"  22. From "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" to "Get Out": Attaining Psychic Freedom and Emancipation Across the Racial Divide