Main description:

Little coverage of racism in the existing psychoanalytic literature; contains contributions from the leading writers on race and psychoanalysis internationally; relating psychoanalytic work to contemporary social and cultural topics is very hot right now.

Contents:

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