As one of many initiatives to fulfill BPSI’s Anti-Racism Commitment, we offer this Resources List to our colleagues and the public, with contemporary literature on race and diversities, in hopes of promoting reflection, dialogue, and psychoanalytic scholarship in the service of promoting racial equality in psychoanalysis.

  • Guralnik, O., & Harb, C. (2025). “Many People Would Throw a Tantrum at This Point”: An Israeli and a Palestinian Discuss 7 October, Gaza, and the Future. Psychoanalytic Dialogues35(1), 83–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2444854
  • Benjamin, J. (2025). Talking in a Time of Violent Destruction: Introduction to a Dialogue Between Orna Guralnik and Christine Harb. Psychoanalytic Dialogues35(1), 78–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2444851

  • Eng, D. L., & Han, S. (2024). Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America. Psychoanalytic Dialogues34(4), 441–460. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2373713
  • Yi, K. (2023). Asian Americans in a World of White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism: Reply to Asibong, Merchant, and Tummala-Narra. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33, 87-96.
  • Yi, K. (2023). Asian American Experience: The Illusion of Inclusion and the Model Minority Stereotype. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33, 45-59.
  • Yi, K. (2024). Collective Trauma and Splitting. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 34, 162-163.
  • Crane, L.S. (2020). Invisible: A Mixt Asian Woman’s Efforts to See and Be Seen in Psychoanalysis. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(2): 127-135. DOI: 10.1080/15240657.2020.1760028

  • Alleyne, A. (2024). Shame and Its Vicissitudes. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 44, 266-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2022.2080431
  • Stephens, M. A. (2022). We Have Never Been White: Afropessimism, Black Rage, and What The Pandemic Helped me Learn About Race (And Psychoanalysis). Psychoanalytic Quarterly 91:319-347. DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2022.2096797
  • Dennis, E. (2022). The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Envious Attacks on the Black Other. Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context 17:141-153. DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2021.1977306
  • Brown, C. (2022). Dem Belly Full But We Hungry: Culinary Spaces and Black Masculinity. Attachment: New Directions in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 16:24-36. DOI 10.33212/att.v16n1.2022.24
  • Jones, A.L. (2020). A Black Woman as an American Analyst: Some Observations From One Woman’s Life Over Four DecadesStudies in Gender and Sexuality, 21,(2), 77-84. DOI:10.1080/15240657.2020.1760013
  • 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
  • Stoute, B. J. (2021). Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 259–290. DOI: 10.1177/00030651211014207

  • Padrón, C. (2022). Other Lullabies: Attacks on Blackness, Confusion of Tongues, and the Loss of Play. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy 21:97-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2022.2066866
  • Adams, C. (2022). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychosocial Dimensions of Adversity among Black Youth. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy 21:108-124. DOI 10.1080/15289168.2022.2069452
  • Bryant, V. (2022). Standing at the Water’s Edge: Manymothers in African American Culture. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy 21:125-139. DOI 10.1080/15289168.2022.2066916
  • Adams, C.J. (2021). Black Youth: Self-making, Creativity and the Assertion of Hybrid Black Identities. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74(1): 59-76. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1859268
  • Archangelo, A. & O’Loughlin, M. (2021) Exploring Racial Formation in Children: Thoughts from an Encounter with Black Children in Brazil. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 20(3): 215-229. DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2021.1950485
  • Cardenal, M. (2021). Special Time: Working with Street Children. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(4): 520. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2021.1926795
  • Patel, P. & Graham, T.M. (2021). A Psychoanalysis for the Black Vertically Infected HIV-Positive Adolescent. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(4): 514-515. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2021.1926798
  • Stoute, B.J & Slevin, M. (2021). Introduction – African American Children in the World of Structural Racism: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74(1): 44-46. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1859297
  • Vaughans, K.C. (2021). Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74(1): 47-58. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1859300

  • McCann, M. & Tudor, K. (2022). Unintentional Racial Microaggressions and the Social Unconscious. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 19:202-216. DOI:10.1002/aps.1753
  • Shah, D. (2020) Dangerous Territory: Racist Moments in the Psychoanalytic Space. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89(3): 399-413. DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2020.1766935

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.

  • González, F.J. & Rachael Peltz, R. (2021). Community Psychoanalysis: Collaborative Practice as Intervention. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(4): 409-427. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2021.1926788

  • Sadek, N. (2023). Racial Justice in Psychoanalytic Communities: Translating Antiracist Dialogues into Racial Equity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33:97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2023.2160178 
  • Davids, M. F. (2022). Race and Analytic Neutrality: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 91:371-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2097796
  • Tummala-Narra, P. (2022). Can We Decolonize Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice?. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:3, 217-234. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2022.2058326
  • Levine, L. (2022). Interrogating Race, Shame and Mutual Vulnerability: Overlapping and Interlapping Waves of Relation. Psychoanalytic Dialigues 32: 99-113. DOI 10.1080/10481885.2022.2033546
  • Emanuel, C. (2022). A White and Nondisabled Psychoanalyst: Owning Racism and Ableism in the Clinical Process. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 17(2): 181-195. DOI: 10.1080/24720038.2022.2039153
  • Hart, A. (2022). Neutrality as a “White Lie”: Discussion of Gabbard, Holmes, and Portugues. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2): 335-349. doi:10.1177/00030651221096686
  • Gabbard, G.O. (2022). The Decline and Fall of Neutrality in Psychoanalytic Discourse. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2): 309-315. doi:10.1177/00030651221094623
  • Holmes, D.E. (2022). Neutrality Is Not Neutral. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2): 317-322. doi:10.1177/00030651221094340
  • Portuges, S.H. (2022). Psychoanalytic Neutrality, Race, and Racism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(2):323-334. doi:10.1177/00030651221097717
  • Blechner, M.J. (2020) Racism and Psychoanalysis: How They Affect One Another. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(2-3): 245-254. DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2020.1756133
  • Hart, A. (2020). Principles For Teaching Issues Of Diversity In A Psychoanalytic Context. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2020.1760084
  • 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
  • Holmes, D. E. (2021). “I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body”: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 237–258. DOI: 10.1177/00030651211009518
  • 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
  • Merson, M. (2021). The Whiteness Taboo: Interrogating Whiteness in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(1): 13-27, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1863092
  • Powell, D.R. (2021). Race Matters in Psychoanalytic Education. Psychoanalysis Today, 14https://www.psychoanalysis.today/en-GB/PT-Articles/Powell139922/Race-Matters-in-Psychoanalytic-Education.aspx
  • Stephens, M. (2020). Getting Next to Ourselves: The Interpersonal Dimensions of Double-Consciousness. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(2-3), 201-225. DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2020.1776095
  • Suslovic, B. (2020) Mitigating racial loneliness as transformative psychoanalytic work. Psychoanalytic Culture and Society (25), 480–489 DOI: 10.1057/s41282-020-00175-4
  • 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

  • Heled, E. (2022). Chronic Illness and Disability in Psychoanalysis: A Theoretical Review of Structural Characteristics. Psychoanalytic Psychology 39, 135-144.
  • Hours, A. (2022). The Institution, Mental Disability and the Psychoanalyst: Prospects Presented by a Revival of Intersubjective Receptivity in Groups. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 103, 144-158.
  • Heled, E. (2021). The Trajectory of Adaptation: A Review of Psychoanalytic Conceptualization of the Working through and Acceptance of Disability. British Journal of Psychotherapy 37, 417-438.

  • Saketopoulou, A. (2022). Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 70, 1071-1109.

  • Olarte, S.W. and Lenz, R. (2022). Learning to Do Psychoanalytic Therapy with an Inner City Population. Psychodynamic Psychiatry 50: 77-85. DOI 10.1521/pdps.2022.50.1.77
  • Gaztambide, D. J. (2021). What Is the Value of a Vote? Or Black and Latinx Communities as Part-Object. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(1): 122-124. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1863086
  • Slevin, M. (2021). Of Being and Becoming: Psychoanalysis, Race and Class in an Urban ER. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74(1): 77-89. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1859295

  • Frie, R. (2024). Long shadows of racism and genocide: Learning from Erich Fromm's social psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 44, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2024.2296339
  • Bass, A. (2021). Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 291–313. DOI: 10.1177/00030651211013539
  • Moss, D. (2021). On Having Whiteness. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 355–371. DOI: 10.1177/00030651211008507

  • de Rementeria, A. (2024). Fear and Loathing, Love and Othering: The Legacy of Early Oedipal Struggles as Manifest in Racialised Dynamics in the Consulting Room. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 50, 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2024.2312522
  • Griffin, C. (2022). Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 32:340-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2022.2090807
  • Burch, B. (2021). Engaging the Whitewashed Countertransference: Race Unexpectedly Appears for Therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(1): 28-37. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1863079

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:

  • Carter, C. J. (2024). The Current Role of Analytical Psychology in Maintaining Fictitious Boundaries That are Promoted through the Race Lie: A Call to Dismantle the Virtual Wall That Exists through Attitudes of White Supremacy. The Journal of Analytical Psychology, 69, 711-734. DOI: 10.1111/1468-5922.13045
  • Cereijido, M. (2022). Challenging Prejudice and Embracing Change. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 19:257-259. DOI 10.1002/aps.1756
  • Caflisch, J. (2020) “When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible”: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(5): 578-594. DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2020.1797402
  • Rudden, M.G. (2021). Systemic Racism and Othering within Government Agencies: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Environmental Injustice in the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74(1): 90-104. DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1859292

Updated January 2025

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