RACE, SELF-DISCLOSURE, AND FORBIDDEN TALK - RACE AND ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL-PRACTICE

In this paper I attempt to extend the psychoanalytic conversation abou t race and ethnicity by discussing the intersubjectivity of race and r acial difference, I present clinical material from an interracial trea tment in which disclosures about race played an important role in deep ening the clinical process. The resulting interactions permitted the p atient to admit more of herself into the treatment space. I suggest th at contemporary psychoanalytic formulations and multicultural perspect ives from outside of psychoanalysis can together create more meaningfu l conceptualizations which take into account the lived realities of ra ce and the ways in which these may be shaped by individual psychology.