Race, Self-Disclosure, and “Forbidden Talk”

Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Clinical Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID9232862
AuthorsKimberlyn Leary (University of Michigan 527 East Liberty St., Suite 209D Ann Arbor, MI 48104, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume66
Issue2
Pages163-189
Publication date1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21674086.1997.11927530
PMID9154647
OpenAlexW1962197523
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited26

In this paper I attempt to extend the psychoanalytic conversation about race and ethnicity by discussing the intersubjectivity of race and racial difference. I present clinical material from an interracial treatment in which disclosures about race played an important role in deepening the clinical process. The resulting interactions permitted the patient to admit more of herself into the treatment space. I suggest that contemporary psychoanalytic formulations and multicultural perspectives from outside of psychoanalysis can together create more meaningful conceptualizations which take into account the lived realities of race and the ways in which these may be shaped by individual psychology

Conversation · Ethnic group · Intersubjectivity · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Anthropology · Communication · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Gender Studies · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications