Splits in the fabric
A community psychoanalytic project during Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco J González (0000-0002-6311-1950, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, corresponding author), Lee Slome (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 521-541 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2024.2354806 |
| PMID | 39230489 |
| OpenAlex | W4402226443 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Demonstrating how psychoanalysts can be useful in community settings outside the conventional consulting room, this paper describes consultation and group interventions conducted at a San Francisco mental health agency serving a largely Asian community. In the traumatic context of the COVID-19 pandemic, agency staff became fragmented, due to remote working conditions and differential work assignments, including mandated deployments to emergency sites. Two psychoanalysts worked with agency leadership to devise a weekly process group held by video conferencing over 6 months, in an attempt to heal resentments and splits in the fabric of the agency. Examples of the group process, interventions, and major themes that emerged are described, as well as recommendations made, including the formation of an ongoing clinical consultation group. The paper situates these interventions in the greater context of the pandemic which exposed not only a universal threat to life and health, but also structural vulnerabilities organized along lines of (racial) difference and inequity. The dynamics at the agency are thus described as rooted within greater nested histories: of the clinic, its leadership, and their relationship with a strained public health system, and more broadly, of the tangled intersection of these histories with anti-Asian racism. These are understood as manifestations of the Social Unconscious, and the intervention as an example of Community Psychoanalysis
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Intervention (counseling · Mental health · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Public health · Public relations · Racism · Resentment · Social science · Sociology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Experiences in Groups
Toward a Social Psychoanalysis
“A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis”
Finding “Sense” without Co-Presence
The Reality of Trauma; the Trauma of Reality
The fifth basic assumption
So What is this Social Unconscious Anyway
Association of “#covid19” Versus “#chinesevirus” With Anti-Asian Sentiments on Twitter
The ‘work group’
First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind
The Filial Piety Complex
Asian American Experience
Experiences in Groups, and Other Papers
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |