The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367218362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Helen Morgan

Opis

Relatively few black people join the psychoanalytic profession and those who do describe training and membership as a difficult and painful process. How racism operates in clinical work, supervision and in our institutions is explored and whilst it can seem an intractable problem, proposals are given for ways forward.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Whiteness  2. The legacy of slavery  3. Race and racism  4. The disavowal of whiteness  5. Freud and Jung  6. The racial complex  7. Racism and the psychoanalytic profession  8. Race and supervision  Epilogue: the work of whiteness

O autorze

Helen Morgan is a Jungian analytic training analyst and supervisor, and Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. Her background is in therapeutic communities with adolescents and in adult mental health. She was Chair of the British Association of Psychotherapists between 2003 and 2007, and Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council between 2015 and 2018. She has published a number of papers, including several on racism.