Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2047189
Margy Sperry
ABSTRACT This discussion explores the complicated and fraught relationship between Ebony Dennis, A Black Psychoanalyst, and her patient, Mrs. A, a White woman from the Southern United States. Employing a socio-cultural lens, I explore how constructions of Whiteness embody and contain unconscious normative processes and highlight the impossibility of untangling what is personal and subjective from what is systemic and intersubjective. Whereas Dennis is primarily concerned with uncovering and confronting her patient’s racialized mind, I focus on the context in which the dyad’s ruptures occurred and became racialized, foregrounding the ways that those contexts reflect a complex tangle of personal history and subjectivity with intersubjective and socio-cultural systems.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2047974
Constance E. Dunlap
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there ‘is’ such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2047973
S. Knoblauch
ABSTRACT With this discussion, the author expands Dennis’s reading of her work with Mrs. A based on a Kleinian lens for projective identification with which Dennis identifies the patient’s hate in the transference. This expansion includes the sociogenic context emphasized by Fanon. This wider lens helps the reader to recognize emotions of both love and hate for the Black body as represented transferentially towards Dennis. It focuses on how a fear of the Black body constructed through the socially normative beliefs and rituals of White Supremacy underlies the kind of conflict with which this clinical dyad struggles.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2046753
Maxwell S. Sucharov
ABSTRACT Drawing heavily on Indigenous authors, this paper explores the historical roots to the emergence of Canada as a genocidal and apartheid state with respect to its Indigenous peoples. A major theme of the paper is that historical injustices grounded in settler colonial priorities continue to inform contemporary socio/political contexts that maintain Canada’s status as a racist, apartheid and genocidal state with respect to Indigenous peoples. Examples drawn from the Lytton fire of 2020 and the November floods in British Columbia highlight that the needs and rights of Indigenous peoples will always take a back seat to Canada’s corporate economic interests. A corollary to the paper constitutes the dismantling of Canada’s “Big Lie” that Canada is a progressive country that has shown considerable progress in its relationship with Indigenous peoples.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2044820
L. Jacobs
ABSTRACT This commentary on, “The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Envious Attacks on the Black Other,” by Ebony Dennis, asserts that there are differences between hate and hatred. I discuss white hatred in terms of the chronic stress on white narcissistic adaptations in the face of the history of white dehumanization and erasure of black people.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2044819
N. Warner
ABSTRACT Societal hauntings overlap with, and yet are distinct from, individual traumas. They are nested systems with interrelated dynamics. Weaving insights from clinical interactions, an incident in a professional space, and her personal experiences, the author explores conceptual expansions that move clinical and personal work beyond the realm of trauma-based language of victim and perpetrator into the realm of implication. Examples of how societal hauntings inform the shape of individual and familial trauma are explored as the author acknowledges the interpenetrating and clashing experiences of injustice, trauma, and privilege. The article concludes with a reminder of how psychoanalysis can be a crucible in which these contradictory experiences can be welcomed and transformed if we are willing to move through our own shame and beyond our individual and collective silence.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2021.2019259
S. Buechler
{"title":"Review of Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear","authors":"S. Buechler","doi":"10.1080/24720038.2021.2019259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2021.2019259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42308,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis Self and Context","volume":"40 1","pages":"157 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91090636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2039153
Christina Emanuel
ABSTRACT In this paper the author offers a discussion of Ebony Dennis’ paper, “The Paranoid-Schizoid Poison and Envious Attacks on the Black Other” (this issue, pp. 141-153). The author summarizes Dennis’ perspective on whiteness as well as that of other psychoanalytic authors. Similarities and differences between racism and ableism are discussed, and the author offers a history of the disability rights movement, the main concepts in the field of critical disability studies, and a clinical discussion illustrating ableism and nondisabled privilege in the clinical process.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2032077
Nicholas Santo
ABSTRACT The treatment room for mental health practitioners has transformed drastically since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the complications of moving therapy online further compounded by the stressors of a public health emergency and, in many cases, increasing racist rhetoric and violence toward minority communities. For many LGBTQ+ clients, feelings of anxiety, insecurity, and shame were already exacerbated by a contentious political climate in place well before the pandemic. No one was untouched by the effects of the spread of the virus; individual emotional and behavioral responses vary as we know from trauma research and the clinician’s subjective experience of the pandemic will likely affect their practice in several ways. Though each clinical encounter is uniquely affected, the intersubjective dynamics created by a shared trauma put an onus on the clinician to adapt frequently to stay empathically attuned with a client. This paper will draw on concepts from motivational systems theory to help understand a composite case vignette involving a gay Asian American client with a history of relational trauma and a gay white therapist. Motivational Systems theory will be used to help elucidate how the client may be affected by the current moment, the affected intersubjective, gay-affirmative therapeutic dynamic, and how clinicians can maintain their attunement to clients in a way that allows them to respond effectively.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2035731
D. Jones
ABSTRACT Deriving from Freud’s initial concerns, the classical tradition regarded the analyst’s self-disclosure as being technically problematic. Yet with contemporary theorizing, there has been an appreciation of how the analyst can also function as a new object in the transference to facilitate the emergence of the patient’s potential. Viewed from this perspective, the analyst’s judicious use of self-disclosure can be the impetus for becoming this new object. In a recent choice to create and perform in a well-publicized musical autobiography entitled Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism, I had to consider that my audiences would be partially made up of my patients. What would they make of the tell all intimate disclosure that made my show so compelling? This paper discusses the surprisingly powerful positive impact my musical autobiography had on their psychotherapy with me. I illustrate how this extra analytic contact (seeing their analyst perform) created both generative and revitalizing enactments that fostered my patient’s growth. Seeing the transference as involving this provisional dimension opens up the possibility that extra-analytic contacts can meet the patient’s emerging transference needs and free the patients to experience and explore new realms. Two cases examples are cited.
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