Powell Dionne R
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Psychoanal Q. 2020;89(3):415-445. doi: 10.1080/00332828.2020.1767486.
Increasingly, as analysts and psychotherapists, we engage in racial encounters that challenge concepts of empathy, neutrality, and anonymity. This paper attempts to enter this dynamic space to uncover the utility of working within racial tensions for its inherent therapeutic value. Part of this challenge for the clinician, who often identifies and is identified as liberal, is to acknowledge the ubiquity of race as unconsciously structuralizing along with our defenses against this recognition. The intransigence of racism, as formed intrapsychically and discovered in our working functions as analysts and psychotherapists, when not actively challenged and reflected on will be explored. Attempts to explicate the indelible effects of race in the American clinician will be provided that goes beyond countertransference or enactments. Clinical examples and connections to modern cinema are utilized to provide a framework to advance our knowledge in working with racial material.
作为分析师和心理治疗师，我们越来越多地参与到挑战共情、中立和匿名概念的种族接触中。本文试图进入这个动态空间，以揭示在种族紧张关系中工作因其内在治疗价值而具有的效用。对于通常认同并被视为自由主义者的临床医生来说，这一挑战的一部分在于承认种族的普遍性，它与我们对这种认知的防御一起在无意识中构成了结构。种族主义的顽固不化，这种在我们作为分析师和心理治疗师的工作功能中内在形成并被发现的现象，如果不被积极挑战和反思，将会被探讨。本文将尝试阐述种族在美国临床医生身上留下的不可磨灭的影响，这超出了反移情或行为表现的范畴。文中利用临床实例以及与现代电影的联系，提供一个框架，以增进我们在处理种族相关素材方面的知识。
