
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.
Featured New Papers
- 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 Dialogues, 35(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 Dialogues, 35(1), 78–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2444851
Asian-American Experiences
- Eng, D. L., & Han, S. (2024). Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34(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
Black Experiences
- 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 Decades. Studies 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
Books: Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir
- Angelou, M. (1991). I Know why the Caged Bird Sings.
- Chude-Sokei, L. (2022). Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir.
- Hughes, L. (1990). The ways of white folks.
- Morrison, T. (2007). The bluest eye: A novel.
- Rankine, C. (2015). Citizen: An American lyric.
Books: Nonfiction
- McGowan, T. (2022). The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
- Czyzselska, J.C. (2022). Queering Psychotherapy. London: Karnac.
- Saketopoulou, A. (2023). Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. New York: NYU Press.
- Saketopoulou, A. & Pellegrini, A. (2023). Gender Without Identity. New York: The Unconscious in Translation.
- Alleyne, A. (2022). The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives. London: Karnac.
- Stoute, B. & Slevin, M. (2022). The Trauma of Racism: Lessons From the Therapeutic Encounter. New York: Routledge.
- Barister, L. (2022). Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity. edited by Leezah Hertzmann and Juliet Newbigin. Abingdon: Routledge, 358pp.
- Moss, D. & Zeavin, L. (eds.) (2023). Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment. New York: Routledge.
- 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.
- Elkins, S. M. (1976). Slavery: A problem in American Institutional and intellectual life.
- Emdin, C. (2017). For white folks who teach in the hood – and the rest of y’all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education.
- 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.
- McWorther, J. (2021). Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.
- Metzl, J.M. (2019). Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.
- 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.
- Rankine, C. (2020). Just Us: An American Conversation. Check this page for the Virtual Book Tour dates in the fall of 2020.
- Robinson, C. J. (2000). Black marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition.
- Snyder, T. (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.
- 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.
- Thandeka (2013). Learning to be white: Money, race, and God in America.
- 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.
- 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. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- 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.
- American Psychological Association. (1993). Violence & youth: Psychology’s response. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Anderson, C. (2017). White Rage. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Belkin, M., & White, C. (2020). Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis: New perspectives on race, gender, and sexuality. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Berzoff, J., Flanagan L.M., Hertz, P. (2011). Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic clinical theory and psychopathology in contemporary multicultural contexts. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Brickman, C. (2018). Race in psychoanalysis: Aboriginal populations in the mind. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Bulhan, H. A. (1985). Frantz Fanon and the psychology of oppression. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Chatelaine, K. L., & Levine, N. (1992). Good me, bad me, not me: Harry Stack Sullivan: an introduction to his thought.
- Chude-Sokei, L. (2022). Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Davids, M. F. (2011). Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Eng, D. L. (2019). Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Fanon, F. (2008). Black skin, white masks. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Gaztambide, D. J. (2020). A people’s history of psychoanalysis. From Freud to liberation psychology. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Gherovici, P. & Christian, C. (2019). Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, class, and the unconscious. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Chatelaine, K. L., & Levine, N. (1992). Good me, bad me, not me: Harry Stack Sullivan: an introduction to his thought.
- Herzog, D. (2018). Cold war Freud: Psychoanalysis in an age of catastrophes. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Jacoby, R. (1986). The repression of psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the political Freudians. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Keval, N. (2016). Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion of Curiosity and Concern.
- Kovel, J., & Ward, I. (1988). White racism: A psychohistory.
- Lane, C. (1998). The psychoanalysis of race. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- 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. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Lythcott-Haims, J. (2018). Real American: A Memoir. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Poussaint, A. F., & Alexander, A. (2000). Lay my burden down: Unraveling suicide and the mental health crisis among African-Americans. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Ramos-Zayas, A. Y. (2012). Street therapists: Race, affect, and neoliberal personhood in Latino Newark. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Ryan, J. (2017). Class and psychoanalysis: Landscapes of inequality.
- Savin-Williams, R. C. (2021). Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Sklarew, B., Twenlow, S.W., Wilkinson, S.M. (2004). Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, War Zones. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Taylor, P., Alcoff, L., Anderson, L. (2020). The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Tovar-Murray, D., & Gaetjens, J. L. (2018). Basic therapeutic counseling skills: Interventions for working with client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- Turner, L., & Neville, H. A. (2020). Frantz Fanon’s psychotherapeutic approaches to clinical work: Practicing internationally with marginalized communities.
- Vaughans, K. C. (2014). The psychology of Black boys and adolescents: 2 volumes. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Volkan, V. (2020). Large-group psychology: Racism, who are we now? societal divisions and narcissistic leaders.
- Wilderson, F. (2021). Afropessimism. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Yancy, G. (2008). Black bodies, white gazes: The continuing significance of race. [BPSI Social Awareness Collection Holding].
- Young-Bruehl, E. (1998). The anatomy of prejudices.
- Zaretsky, E. (2017). Political Freud: A history.
BPSI Programs and Publications
- BPSI READS: Open Conversations on Race, Equity, Diversity and Otherness
- Academic Lecture, Winter 2024 “Othering Enactments in Psychoanalytic Organizations: Problems and Promises” with Anton Hart, PhD.
- The 2024 Faculty Development Workshop “No Way But Through: Learning Together from Othering Enactments” with guest speaker Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD.
- 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/
- 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.
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.
Child & Adolescent Development and Concepts of Race, Class & Othering
- 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
Class/Money, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
- Noonan, J. (2024). Engaging Minds: Toward Developing Psychoanalytic Candidates. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 44, 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2024.2306098
Classroom Enactments
- 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
Collective Resource Sites
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
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others by Pepperdine University’s Online Master of Psychology program.
- Routledge. Educating for Black Lives: Readings and Resources for Anti-racist Education
Community Psychoanalysis
- 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
"Decolonizing" Psychoanalysis
- 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, 14: https://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
Disability
- 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.
Gender & Sexuality
- Tyminski, R. (2024). Humanizing Different Archetypal Expressions of Gender Expansiveness. The Journal of Analytical Psychology, 69, 809-826. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13041
- Bailey, Q. (2024). Trans identity development and integration. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 41(2), 72–77. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000478
- Samy, M. (2024). Tran in April: The Analysis of a transgender adolescent with notes on the metapsychology of gender transition. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 93, 273-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2345804
- Cohen, A. (2024). This is who I am: Psychotherapy with gender questioning and transgender adolescents. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 50, 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2023.2279638
- Silverman, S. (2023). Who’s Transitioning? A Cisgender Analyst Working with Gender Expansive Patients. Psychoanalytic Perspectives 20:31-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2022.2144045
- Langer, S. (2022). Gender is a Complex Number and the Case for Trans Phantoms. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 23:136-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072577
- Silverman, D. K. (2022). Otherness and Our Sexuality: Laplanche Clinically. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 23:5-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2037303
- Cooper, M., Jung, S. & Gordon, J. (2022). Identity Process Treatment Model for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 23:112-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072574
- Botticelli, S. (2022). Writing as Queer Practice and Pleasure. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(3): 603-606. DOI: 10.1177/00030651221109924
Group Relations & Dynamics Relating to Race/Power
- Saketopoulou, A. (2022). Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 70, 1071-1109.
Immigrant Experiences
- Tummala-Narra, P. (2020). The Fear of Immigrants. Psychoanalytic Psychology 37:1, 50-61. DOI https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000245
Interdisciplinary Articles & Resources
- Aires, S. & Chamusca, C. (2024). Psychoanalysis, Harm and Risk Reduction in Vulnerable Populations. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 31, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228878.2024.2311778
- Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) (2021). A Rising Tide of Hate and Violence against Asian Americans in New York During COVID-19: Impact, Causes, Solutions. Paul/Weiss.
- 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.
- How to Provide a Multicultural Education. Baylor University EdD Online Program in Learning and Organizational Change.
- Lorde, A. (1984). Age, race, class and sex: women redefining difference. In Lorde, A. (1984). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches, 114-123.
- Mekawi, Y. et al. (2020). Racial discrimination and Posttraumatic Stress: Examining Emotion Dysregulation as a Mediator in an African American Community Sample. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1).
- 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.
- Syracuse University. Guidance for Reporting and Writing About Racism.
- 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.
Intersectionality
- 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
Latinx Experiences
- Rodríguez, A. (2024). Disallowing Multiplicity: Internalized Hierarchies, Dissociation, and Unformulated Bits of Self in a Poor, Mixed-Race Kid. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34, 716-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2416647
- Reynoso, J.S. (2021) The Racist Within. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90(1): 49-76. DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2021.1850143
The Psychosocial Surround
- 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
Race in the Consulting Room
- 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
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:
- Holmes et al (2024). In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations From the Holmes Commission. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 72(3), 407-552. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241253623
- The American Psychoanalyst, Vol 55(2), Spring/Summer 2021
- Margaret Morgan Lawrence: Honoring a Trailblazer by Susan C. Vaughan (p. 1, 4-6, 33-34)
- Kimberlyn Leary On Psychoanalysis and Social Equity: An Interview with Justin Shubert, Diversity Editor (p. 16-18)
- The American Psychoanalyst, Vol 55(1), Winter/Spring 2021
- Covid-19, George Floyd, Racism, Psychoanalysis, and Music by Julie Jaffee Nagel (p. 7, 34)
- Analyzing Psychoanalytic Racism by Mark J. Blechner (p. 11-13)
- Notes from the Inaugural Meeting of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in APsaA with Dorothy E. Holmes, Dionne R. Powell, Anton Hart, Beverly J. Stoute (p. 13-15)
- A Psychoanalytic Approach to Combating Racism by Margarita Cereijido (p. 29)
- The American Psychoanalyst, Vol 54(3), Fall 2020
- Diversities – Part I:
- Introduction from the Diversity Editor Justin Shubert
- Interview with Sandra Walker Justin Shubert
- Parasitic Whiteness at Work Donald B. Moss
- A Preview of How Psychoanalytic Training Institutes are Addressing the Diversities Anton Hart, Jordan Dunn, and Lauren Jones
- From Crosscurrents – Part I:
- On Finding Speech Hasani Baharanyi
- “This Country is Going to Kill Me” Forrest Hamer
- APsaA DPE Diversity Resources Database Webpage
- The American Psychoanalyst (Vols. 50(3), 50(4), 51(1)), three-issue series on race.
Systematic/Organizational Racism
- 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
Working Across Difference in Clinical Dyads
- Schechter, S. (2024). Ethics Education in Psychoanalytic Institutes. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 44, 178-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2024.2306104
- Stephens, M. (2022). Relational Racialization and Segregated Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 32:114-120. DOI 10.1080/10481885.2022.2033547
Updated January 2025
We also invite you to see:
BPSI READS: Open Conversations on Race, Equity, Diversity and Otherness
The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in Psychoanalysis
