BPSI Resources on Race, Diversity, and Otherness

Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Voices

As one of many initiatives to fulfill BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment we offer this Resource Page to our colleagues and the public, in hopes of promoting reflection, dialogue, and psychoanalytic scholarship to address the problems of systemic racism.

We thank the many colleagues contributing to this Resources Page. In particular we thank the APsaA and the DPE Section on Diversities, whose resources list provided the base and inspiration for our BPSI Resources project. We thank Olga Umansky, BPSI’s Hanns Sachs Librarian and Archivist, for her invaluable work. We are deeply grateful to Deborah Choate, Karen Melikian, and Cecilia Mikalac for their recent donations of books to enrich our Social Awareness collection.

We envision this as an evolving Resources list being updated regularly, and we invite and welcome your suggestions. While the initial contributions are focused on race, we intend to build the list to include more resources on diversities and otherness. Please tell us your ideas here or by writing to Olga Umansky at library@bpsi.org, or by writing to any member of the BPSI Leadership Team: Jim Barron, Jack Foehl, Catherine Kimble, Dan Mollod, or Carole Nathan.

Updated Aug 5, 2020

Books

Psychoanalytic

• Abel, E., Christian, B., & Moglen, H. (2006). Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism.
• Adams, M. V. (1996). The multicultural imagination: Race, color, and the unconscious.
• Akhtar, S. (2014). The African American experience: Psychoanalytic perspectives.
• Altman, N. (1995). The Analyst in the Inner City:  Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens.
• Aron, L., & Starr, K. E. (2013). A psychotherapy for the people: Toward a progressive psychoanalysis.
• Belkin, M., & White, C. (2020). Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis: New perspectives on race, gender, and sexuality.
• Brickman, C. (2018). Race in psychoanalysis: Aboriginal populations in the mind.
• Chatelaine, K. L., & Levine, N. (1992). Good me, bad me, not me: Harry Stack Sullivan: an introduction to his thought.
• Gaztambide, D. J. (2020). A people’s history of psychoanalysis. From Freud to liberation psychology.
• Gherovici, P., & Christian, C. (2019). Psychoanalysis in the barrios: Race, class, and the unconscious.
• Herzog, D. (2018). Cold war Freud: Psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes. 
• Jacoby, R. (1986). The repression of psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the political Freudians. 
• Kovel, J., & Ward, I. (1988). White racism: A psychohistory.
• Layton, L., Hollander, N. C., & Gutwill, S. (2006). Psychoanalysis, class and politics: Encounters in the clinical setting.
• Layton, L., & Leavy-Sperounis, M. (2020). Toward a social psychoanalysis: Culture, character, and normative unconscious processes.
• Ryan, J. (2017). Class and psychoanalysis: Landscapes of inequality.
• Turner, L., & Neville, H. A. (2020). Frantz Fanon’s psychotherapeutic approaches to clinical work: Practicing internationally with marginalized communities.
• Volkan, V. (2020). Large-group psychology: Racism, who are we now? societal divisions and narcissistic leaders.
• Young-Bruehl, E. (1998). The anatomy of prejudices.
• Zaretsky, E. (2017). Political Freud: A history.

Many are available in the BPSI Library

Nonfiction

• Alexander, M. (2012). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.
• Armstrong, C. (2005). White rage.
• Baldwin, J. (1993). The fire next time.
• Baptist, E. E. (2017). Half has never been told: Slavery and the making of american capitalism.
• Bonilla-Silva, E. (2014). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America.
• Coates, T. -N. (2017). Between the world and me.
• Coates, T.-N. (2018). We Were Eight Years in Power: An American tragedy.
• DiAngelo, R. J. (2019). White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism.
• Doane, A. W., & Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). White out: The continuing significance of racism. 
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (2019). The souls of black folk.
• Emdin, C. (2017). For white folks who teach in the hood – and the rest of y’all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education.
• Fanon, F. (2008). Black skin, white masks. 
• Fine, M. (1997). Off white: Readings on race, power, and society.
• Gay, V. P. (2016). On the pleasures of owning persons: The hidden face of American slavery.
• Hale, F. W. (2004). What makes racial diversity work in higher education: Academic leaders present successful policies and strategies.
• Hochschild, A. R. (2018). Strangers in their own land: Anger and mourning on the American right.
• Kendall, F. E. (2013). Understanding white privilege: Creating pathways to authentic relationships across race.
• Kendi, I. X. (2017). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America.
• Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist.
• Morris, M. W., Conteh, M., & Harris-Perry, M. (2018). Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools.
• Morrison, T. (1993). Playing in the dark: Whiteness and the literary imagination. 
• Morrison, T. (2017). The origin of others: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. 
• Nilsen, S., & Turner, S. E. (2014). The colorblind screen: Television in post-racial America.
• Oluo, I. (2020). So you want to talk about race.
• Omi, M., & Winant, H. (2015). Racial formation in the United States. 
• Patterson, H. O. (1982). Slavery and social death: A comparative study.
• Robinson, C. J. (2000). Black marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. 
• Sullivan, S. (2006). Revealing whiteness: The unconscious habits of racial privilege.
• Tatum, B. D. (1997). “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” and other conversations about race.
• Ward, J. (2016). The fire this time: A new generation speaks about race.
• Wilkerson, I. (2011). The warmth of other suns: The epic story of America’s great migration.
• Yancy, G. (2012). Look, a white!: Philosophical essays on whiteness.

Fiction, Poetry and Memoir

• Angelou, M. (1991). I Know why the Caged Bird Sings.
• Hughes, L. (1990). The ways of white folks. 
• Morrison, T. (2007). The bluest eye: A novel.
• Rankine, C. (2015). Citizen: An American lyric.

Select Psychoanalytic Papers 

Available on PEP and from the BPSI Library

• Altman, N. (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race.Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4), 589-605. PEP Web Link.
• González, F.J. (2019). Necessary Disruptions: A Discussion of Daniel Butler’s “Racialized Bodies and the Violence of the Setting”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 20(3), 159-164.
• Hamer F. M. (2002). Guards at the gate: race, resistance, and psychic reality. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 50(4), 1219–1237. PEP Web Link.
• Hamer, F.M. (2006) Racism as a Transference State: Episodes of Racial Hostility in The Psychoanalytic Context, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(1), 197-214. PEP Web Link.
• Harris, A. (2012). The house of difference, or White silence. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 13(3), 197–216.  ​PEP Web Link.
• Hart, A (2018) From Multicultural Competence to Radical Openness:  A Psychoanalytic Engagement of Otherness. The American Psychoanalyst, 5(1). https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol51no1-TOC/html/vol51no1_09.xhtml
• Hart, A. (2019). The Discriminatory Gesture: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Posttraumatic Reactions to Incidents of Racial Discrimination, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26(1), 5-24.
• Holmes, D.E. (1992). Race and Transference in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 73:1-11. PEP Web Link.
• Holmes, D.E. (1999). Race and Countertransference: Two “Blind Spots” in Psychoanalytic Perception. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 1(4):319-332. PEP Web Link.
• Holmes, D.E. (2006). The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(1):215-235. PEP Web Link. PEP Web Link.
• Jamali, A.P. & Méndez, T. (2019). “Know Whence you Came”: Psychoanalytic Theory, Queer Theory, and the Mixed-Race Experience. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 26(1), 69-83.
• Leary, K. (1997). Race, Self-Disclosure, and “Forbidden Talk”: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Clinical Practice. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 66(2), 163-189. PEP Web Link.
• Leary, K. (2000). Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4), 639-653. PEP Web Link.
• Leary, K. (2007). Racial Insult and Repair. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17(4), 539-549. PEP Web Link.
• Leary, K. (2012). Race as an Adaptive Challenge: Working with Diversity in the Clinical Consulting Room. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 29(3), 279-291. PEP Web Link.
• Powell, D. R. (2018). Race, African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66(6), 1021–1049.
• Segal, H. (1987). Silence is the Real Crime. The International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 14, 3-12. PEP Web Link.
• Stoute, B. (2017). Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in Our Nursery. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 10-29. https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol51no1-TOC/html/vol51no1_08.xhtml
• Suchet, M. (2007). Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17(6): 867-886. PEP Web Link.
• White, K.P. (2002). Surviving Hating and Being Hated. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38(3):401-422. PEP Web Link.

New Psychoanalytic Papers  (2020)

Available from the BPSI library

• Hartman, S. (2020). Binded by the White: A Discussion of “Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 317-324. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744965
• Knoblauch, S.H. (2020). Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 299-316. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744966
• Knoblauch, S. H. (2020). Beyond Racial Visibility and Invisible: Reply to Hartman and Sheehi. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 331-335. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744967
• Powell, D. R. (2020). From the Sunken Place to the Shitty Pace: The Film Get Out, Psychic Emancipation and Modern Race Relations from a Psychodynamic Clinical Perspective. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89(3), 415-445. DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2020.1767486
• Sheehi, L. (2020). The Reality Principle: Fanonian Undoing, Unlearning, and Decentering: A Discussion of “Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 325-330. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1744972
• Woods, A. (2020). The work before us: Whiteness and the psychoanalytic institute. Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, 25, 230–249. DOI: 10.1057/s41282-019-00155-3

Resources from APsaA and the DPE Section on Diversities

With thanks to APsaA and the DPE Section on Diversities chaired by Dr. Anton Hart, ApsaA has created an extensive resource page including films, podcasts, and papers, many of which have informed our BPSI Resource page.  For the full listing, go to https://apsa.org/addressing-racism. Of special attention are:

• APsaA DPE Diversity Resources Database Webpage 
• The American Psychoanalyst (Vols. 50(3), 50(4), 51(1)), three-issue series on race.

BPSI Programs and Publications

BPSI audio-recorded the 2019 program “Facets of Race in Psychoanalysis” with Celia Brickman, PhD and Francisco Gonzalez, MD. BPSI, December 7, 2019. Click here to listen.

BPSI’s journal American Imago published papers from the 2018 BPSI Conference “Race, Racism, and Emancipation: Can We See Ourselves as We Are?” along with a paper by Dorothy Evans Holmes:

• Edelstein, B. (2019). Introduction: Stumbling on our Past, Reflections on James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook”. American Imago 76(3), 295-300.
• Hamer, F.M. (2019). Liberty, This Beautiful and Terrible Thing. American Imago 76(3), 301-308.
• Harris, A. (2019). The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege. American Imago 76(3), 309-333.
• Holmes, D.E. (2019). Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity. American Imago 76(3), 359-379.
• Stoute, B.J. (2019). Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America. American Imago 76(3), 335-357.

Interdisciplinary Papers and Work

• Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989, Article 8. Available at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8
• French, B. H., Lewis, J. A., Mosley, D. V., Adames, H. Y., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Chen, G. A., & Neville, H. A. (2020). Toward a Psychological Framework of Radical Healing in Communities of Color. The Counseling Psychologist, 48(1), 14–46.  Click here to download.
• Lorde, A. (1984). Age, race, class and sex: women redefining difference. In Lorde, A. (1984). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches, 114-123.
• Nichols, L.T. (2019). Louisa Pinkham Holt, Public Sociology and Racial Desegregation. Society (56),378–382.
• Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Working Definition of Allyship: The Handout.
• Oberlin College. Tips for Antiracist Allyship.
• Revolutionary Solidarity: A Critical Reader for Accomplices (essays from Ferguson). (2015).  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Race, Racism and Health: Examining the connections between race, racism and health in the United States.
• The Vermont-NEA Racial Justice Task Force. (2018). Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In.
• Villalobos, (2015). Applying White Followership to Racial Justice Organizing. In Latina/o college student leadership: Emerging theory, promising practice; edited by Adele Lozano. Lexington Books, pp. 167-184.

BPSI Public Voices

BPSI Members’ Op-Eds/Off-the-Couch/Blogs/Interviews

• Baker, M. (2017, February 21). BPSI Off the Couch: I Am Not Your Negro. BPSI. https://bpsi.org/off-the-couch-james-baldwin/
• Edelstein. B. (2018, Spring). Solange Skinner Conference: Race and Emancipation. The BPSI Bulletin, p. 28-31. https://bpsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BPSI-Bulletin-Spring-2018-WEB.pdf
• Epstein, A. (2017, Fall/Winter). Implicit Bias, Psychoanalysis, and Racial Bias. The BPSI Bulletin, p. 25-27. https://bpsi.org/implicit-bias-psychoanalysis-and-racial-bias/
• Gibson, N. (2020, July 8). Fanonian revolutionary practice and Fanonian psychotherapeutic practice: An interview with Helen Neville and Lou Turner, editors of “Frantz Fanon’s Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities” (Routledge, 2020). Daraja Press.https://darajapress.com/2020/07/08/fanonian-revolutionary-practice-and-fanonian-psychotherapeutic-practice
• Goldberg, E.(2019). The Nickel Boys: A Novel. BPSI. https://bpsi.org/the-nickel-boys-a-novel/
• Leary, K. (2019). Issue Brief from The Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law: Mental Health, School-Based Health Centers, and Girls of Color: Policy and Practice Recommendations: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-inequality-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/12/Policy-and-Practice-Recommendations-for-Release.pdf
• Leary, K. (2019, July 26), BPSI Trustee, interviewed on MSNBC as one of the 149 signatories of the op-ed in the Washington Post calling President Trump out on his racist rhetoric. https://www.facebook.com/kimberlyn.leary/videos/10161958870895403/.
• Webster, Cecil, appearances on WGBH Basic Black:
  • Khalil G. Muhammad, PhD, Cecil Webster, MD, Kenneth Shropshire & Rahsaan Hall (Panelists). (2020 June 20). Protests, Police & Hope for the Future. (Season 2010, Episode 5228) Basic Black. WGBH Boston. https://www.wgbh.org/program/basic-black/protests-police-hope-for-the-future
  • Charmain Jackman PhD, Cecil Webster, MD, Xenia Johnson-Bhembe, MD, (Panelists). (2020 April 3). COVID-19 & Mental Health (Season 2019, Episode 5219) Basic Black. WGBH Boston. https://www.pbs.org/video/covid-19-mental-health-wgl6zn/
  • Ivan Espinoza, Esq, Cecil Webster, MD, Phillip Martin, WGBH/NECIR, Prof. Michael Jeffries, (Panelists). (2019 October 4). Fear of the Other. (Season 2019, Episode 5201) Basic Black. WGBH Boston. https://video.wgbh.org/video/fear-of-the-other-tm145b/

In the Media

• Douglass, F. (1852, July 5) “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”. Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Teaching American History. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
• Gold, J. (2020, June 12). ‘I Am Tired’: What Black Doctors Need You To Know Right Now. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicagold/2020/06/12/i-am-tired-what-black-doctors-need-you-to-know-right-now/amp/
• Greenfield-Sanders, T. (2020, June 23). Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. (Season 34, Episode 3) American Masters. PBS.
  https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am-about/12366/
• Kendi, I.X. (2018, January 13). The Heartbeat of Racism is Denial. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/heartbeat-of-racism-denial.html
• McWhorter, J. (2015, July 27). Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion. Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion
• McWhorter, J. (2020, June 22). The Dictionary Definition of Racism Has to Change. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/dictionary-definition-racism-has-change/613324/
• Mineo, L. (2020, June 4). Why America can’t escape its racist roots: A scholar of slavery and issues of race, Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, talks about the killing of George Floyd. The Harvard Gazette. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/orlando-patterson-explains-why-america-cant-escape-its-racist-roots/
• Obama, B. (2013). Remarks by the president on Trayvon Martin. The White House Office of Press Secretary. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/19/remarks-president-trayvon-martin
• Patterson, O. (2020, June 5): The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S. Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-reach-of-racism-in-the-u-s-11591372542
• SALMAGUNDI. (2020, Spring-Summer). The Black Intellectual and the Condition of the Culture: A Salmagundi Symposium at Skidmore College. https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/192-the-black-intellectual-the-condition-of-the-culture
• Stovall, N. (2019, August). Whiteness on the Couch. Longreads. https://longreads.com/2019/08/12/whiteness-on-the-couch/
• Tippet, K. (2020, July 9). Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem: In Conversation. [Audio podcast episode]. In On Being. WNYC.
  https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-diangelo-and-resmaa-menakem-in-conversation/
• Winograd, B. (2014). Black Psychoanalysts Speak [Video]. PEP Video Grants, 1(1):1. YouTube (for a limited time in 2020), PEP Web Link (permanent).

Books from the BPSI Library

Social Awareness Shelf

• Akhtar, S. (2014). The African American experience: Psychoanalytic perspectives.
• American Psychological Association. (1993). Violence & youth: Psychology’s response.
• Brickman, C. (2018). Race in psychoanalysis: Aboriginal populations in the mind.
• Bulhan, H. A. (1985). Frantz Fanon and the psychology of oppression.
• Gaztambide, D. J. (2020). A people’s history of psychoanalysis. From Freud to liberation psychology.
• Lane, C. (1998). The psychoanalysis of race.
• Poussaint, A. F., & Alexander, A. (2000). Lay my burden down: Unraveling suicide and the mental health crisis among African-Americans.
• Ramos-Zayas, A. Y. (2012). Street therapists: Race, affect, and neoliberal personhood in Latino Newark.
• Vaughans, K. C. (2014). The psychology of Black boys and adolescents: 2 volumes.
• Yancy, G. (2008). Black bodies, white gazes: The continuing significance of race.

From The BPSI Archives:

• Tributes to Frances Bonner. PINE Newsletter (2001, Spring/Summer). PINE Collection, The BPSI Archives.
• Orlando Lightfoot, MD. Interview to Sanford Gifford, MD (2001, May 21). [Audio recordings]. Oral History Interviews, The BPSI Archives.
• Charles Pinderhughes, MD. Interview by Sanford Gifford (1994, December 7). [Transcript]. Oral History Transcripts, BPSI Archives.
• Brown vs. Board of Education materials. Louisa Pinkham Howe Papers. The BPSI Archives.
• Howe (Holt), Louisa Pinkham. Interviews to Catherine Holt and David J. Kallen (1995-1996). [Transcripts]. Oral History Transcripts, The BPSI Archives.

Curated Reading lists

• Anti-Racism and Racism in Psychology, Psychiatry, Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Supervision, a list compiled by Kenneth S. Pope, PhD, ABPP
• NY Times Anti-racism Reading List
• Harvard Gazette:  Reading list on Issues of Race https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/a-reading-list-on-issues-of-race/
• The Anti-Racist Starter Pack  https://parade.com/1046031/breabaker/anti-racist-tv-movies-documentaries-ted-talks-books/
• Harvard Kennedy School resources and reading on racial justice, equity and anti-racism
• Talking about Race: Being Antiracist. Resources from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Collective Resource Sites

• Additional Anti-Racism Resources
• Black Lives Matter Translated

A crowd-sourced repository with resources in 23 languages with an emphasis on conversations within immigrant communities and families about Black Lives Matter and systemic racism.

• National Equity Project