Deepening the Treatment

January 3, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Wyman Classroom

[31 pages]

Leary, K. (2000). Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment. Psychoanal. Dial., 10(4):639-653.

According to Leary, what feelings are racial enactments likely to provoke in the analyst?
Leary says that “racial experience may have something in common with what Stern (1997) called unformulated experience.” What does she mean by this?
The author states that it is “inevitable” that each of us will drift into racial enactments at one time or another. What does she suggest is the best way to work with patients when racial enactments do transpire?
What does Leary think is the most common racial enactment we clinicians fall into?

Suchet, M. (2004). A Relational Encounter with Race. Psychoanal. Dial., 14(4):423-438.

Suchet references Leary’s statement that race occupies a transitional space in the therapeutic process. What does this mean, and how is it represented in Suchet’s treatment of Sam? (pp. 429-430)
Name some of the oscillations of multiple subject positions that may be constellated between analyst and patient around the issue of race. (pp. 431-432)
What does Suchet describe as some of the causes and effects of using whiteness as the universal norm? (pp. 432-433)
What is the central idea of Helms’s work that Suchet elaborates upon in her reflections about the underlying dynamics of her work with Sam? (pp.433-434)
Suchet quotes Helms and Cook as arguing that “race and culture critically influence every aspect of the therapeutic process.” How does Suchet describe her work evolving in the years since her treatment of Sam? (pp.435-436).

Gaztambide, D.J. (2021). Do black lives matter in psychoanalysis? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(3), 177-184.