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Diversities Reading Group Syllabus
Psychoanalytic Concepts of Racism and Othering
Dalal, F. (2001). Insides and Outsides: A review of psychoanalytic renderings of difference, racism and prejudice, Psychoanalytic Studies, 3(1): 43-66.
Dalal, F. (2006). Racism: Processes of Detachment Dehumanization and Hate. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 75: 131-161.
National and Historical
Cheng, Annie (2001). Melancholy of Race. Oxford University Press.
Gay, Volney (2016). On The Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery. IPBooks.
Kendi, Ibram (2017). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Bold Type Books.
Kovel, J. (1970). “Chapter 4. Fantasies of Race” in White Racism: A Psychohistory. New York: Columbia University Press.
Rankine, Claudia (2014). Citizen: An American Lyric. Graywolf Press.
Rankine, Claudia (2020). Just Us. An American Conversation. Graywolf Press.
Smith, Lillian. (1994). Killers of the Dream. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.
Wilkerson, Isabel (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House.
Young-Breuhl, Elizabeth (1998). The Anatomy of Prejudices, Harvard University Press.
Whiteness
DiAngelo, R. (2012). What Does it Mean to be White. Peter Lang Publishing: New York.
- Chapter 9: How Race Shapes the Lives of White People;
- Chapter 10: What Makes Racism So Hard for Whites to See? and
- Chapter 12: Common Patterns of Well-Intentioned White People, In DiAngelo, R.
Alcoff, Linda Martin. (2015). The Future of Whiteness. Polity.
DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility. Beacon Press: New York.
Holmes, Dorothy (2019). Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity. American Imago, Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2019, pp. 359-379.
Holmes, Dorothy (2021). I do not have a racist bone in my body, JAPA, April 2021.
Morgan, Helen. The Work of Whiteness. (book due out May 31, 2021).
Moskowitz, M. (2016). How I Came to Understand White Privilege. The American Psychoanalyst. 50 (3) Fall 2016.
Moss, D.B. (2021) On Having Whiteness. JAPA, April 2021.
Reichbart, R.(2016). On Racism and Being White: The Journey to Henry’s Restaurant. The American Psychoanalyst. 50(3) Winter 2016. (https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol50no4-TOC/html/vol50no4_07.xhtml)
Suchet, M. (2007). Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 17(6): 876-886. (Suchet, M. (2007).
Psychoanalytic Culture
Altman, N. (2006). How Psychoanalysis Became White in the United States, and How that Might Change. Psychoanal. Perspect., 3(2):65-72.
Hart, A. (2019) From Multicultural Competence to Radical Openness: A Psychoanalytic Engagement of Otherness. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1): March 2017
Hart, A. (2020). Principles For Teaching Issues Of Diversity In A Psychoanalytic Context. Contemp. Psychoanal., 56(2-3):404-417.
Jacobs, L.M. (2014). Learning to Love White Shame and Guilt: Skills for Working as a White Therapist in a Racially Divided Country. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 9(4):297-312. […]
Jones, A.L. (2020). A Black Woman as an American Analyst: Some Observations From One Woman’s Life Over Four Decades. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(2):77-84.
Powell, D.R. (2018). Race, African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Conversation. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 66(6):1021-1049.
Stoute, B.J. (2017). Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The ghosts in our nursery. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1): 10,11,16,17-18, 28-29, March 2017. (https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol51no1-TOC/html/vol51no1_08.xhtml)
Clinical Developmental Issues
Altman, N. (2006). Whiteness. Psychoanal Q., 75(1):45-72.
Stoute, B.J. (2019). Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. Am. Imago, 76(3):335-357.
Transference
Hamer, F.M. (2006). Racism as a Transference State: Episodes of Racial Hostility in the Psychoanalytic Context. Psychoanal Q., 75(1):197-214.
Holmes, D.E. (1992). Race and Transference in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 73:1-11.
Trauma
Akhtar, S. (2014). The Mental Pain of Minorities. Brit. J. Psychother., 30(2):136-153.
Altman, N. (2004). History Repeat Itself in Transference: Countertransference. Psychoanal. Dial., 14(6):807-815.
Apprey, M. (2003). Repairing history: Reworking transgenerational trauma. In Hating in the First Person Plural, edited by Moss, D. New York: The Other Press. In Moss, D. Hating In the First Person Plural. Other Press: New York.
Gump, J.P. (2010). Reality Matters: The Shadow of Trauma on African American Subjectivity. Psychoanal. Psychol., 27(1):42-54.
Hart, A. (2019) The Discriminatory Gesture: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Posttraumatic Reactions to Incidents of Racial Discrimination, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26:1,5-24.
Jones, Annie Lee, (2016). Relational Dynamics of Loss, Grief and Fear in Everyday Lives of African-American Women. The American Psychoanalyst. 50(3): Fall 2016.
Prince, R. (2009). Psychoanalysis Traumatized: The Legacy of the Holocaust. Am. J. Psychoanal., 69(3):179-194.
Stoute, B. (2021) Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression. JAPA, April 2021.
Vaughans, K. (2016). African-American Boys and Adolescents under the Shadow of Slavery’s Legacy. The American Psychoanalyst. 50(3): Fall 2016.
White, K.P. (2002). Surviving Hating and Being Hated: Some Personal Thoughts About Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective. Contemp. Psychoanal., 38(3):401-422.
Technical Issues
Caflisch, J. (2020). “When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible”: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race. Psychoanal. Dial., 30(5):578-594.
Davids, M.F. (2020). A Discussion of “‘When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible’: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race”. Psychoanal. Dial., 30(5):604-612.
Eng, D.L. Han, S. (2000). A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia. Psychoanal. Dial., 10(4):667-700.
Leary, K. (2000). Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment. Psychoanal. Dial., 10(4):639-653.
Moss, D.B. (2006). Mapping Racism. Psychoanal Q., 75(1):271-294
Swartz, S. (2020). Giving In, Giving Up, and Being Blown to Smithereens: A Discussion of “‘When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible’: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race”. Psychoanal. Dial., 30(5):613-620.
Dignity
Holmes, Dorothy (2016). “I Knew My Mind Could Take Me Anywhere: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Dignity of African Americans Living in a Racist Society.” In Dignity Matters: Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives. Ed. By. Susan Levine. Karnac: Great Britain, 119-139.
Stoute, B.J. (2019). Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. Am. Imago, 76(3):335-357.
Vaughan, S. (2016). “The dignity of one’s experiences: dignity and indignity in the lives of LGBT people,” In Dignity Matters: Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives. Ed. By. Susan Levine. Karnac: Great Britain, pp. 101-117.