Diversity, Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation, CF 661

Spring 2010

 

Instructor:  Boris Thomas, JD, PhD

Contact Information:  312.279.7575 / boris@boristhomas.com

Class Meeting Time:  Saturdays, 8:30am to 10:30am

Class Meeting Dates:  January 30, February 13, February 27, March 13, March 27, April 17, May 1, May 15

Course Description and Goals: 

This course presents issues of race, gender and sexuality as addressed in the psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic context and examined from the relational and intersubjective theoretical perspectives.  This course has four primary goals: 1) to locate the clinician and client within a greater historic and socio-cultural context; 2) to stimulate awareness of difference and its role within the relationship between the therapist and the client; 3) to encourage the breaking of difference-based barriers to effective psychotherapeutic treatment through awareness; and 4) to understand multiple frameworks for thinking about difference.

Course Requirements:

Your performance in this class will be evaluated based on the following:

	Assignment	Percentage of  Grade
	Attendance and participation in class.	25%
	Preparation of three written comments and/or questions related to the assigned reading for each class.  Comments/questions must be handed in at the beginning of each class.	25%
	One case discussion presentation based on the readings for the class.	25%
	One final paper 12-15 pages in length responding to the question: “How do you understand the place or significance of difference in clinical work?”  This is a theoretical paper not a case presentation though you may refer to specific clinical work for illustrative purposes.  You may select any area of difference that has been covered in the course of the class.  Use a minimum of six readings.  Please follow APA guidelines in formatting your paper. This paper is due on May 15.  Late papers will not be accepted.	25%

Required Texts: 

Moodley R. and Palmer, S. (Eds.) (2006). Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice. New York:  Routledge.

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Fairfield, S, Layton, L. and Stack, C. (Eds.) (2002). Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis.  New York, NY:  Other Press.

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All other articles are available on the PEP archive, have been scanned and placed on the ICSW web site, or will be provided by the instructor electronically or in hard copy.

 

Class 1 – January 30th

Moodley, R. and Palmer, S. (2006). Race, culture and other multiple constructions:  an absent presence in psychotherapy.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 11-25). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 1
Aron, L. (1991).  The patient’s experience of the analyst’s subjectivity. In L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.), Relational Psychoanalysis:  The Emergence of a Tradition (pp. 243-268).  Hillsdale, NY:  The Analytic Press. [Available on PEP Archive as cited in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1(1), 29-51]	PEP
Altman, N. (1995).  Race, culture, and social class.  In The Analyst in the Inner City (pp. 74-118).  Hillsdale, NJ:  The Analytic Press.	Scanned copy is on ICSW.edu

 

Class 2 – February 13th

Holmes, D.E. (2006).  Racial transference reactions in psychoanalytic treatment: An update.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 61-73). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 5
Yi, K. Y. (2006).  Transference and race:  An intersubjective conceptualization.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 74-88). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 6
Tang, N.M. and Gardner, J. (2006).  Interpretation of race in the transference:  perspectives of similarity and difference in the patient/therapist dyad.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 89-99). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 7
Olson, J. (1997).  Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racists. Hamburg, PA:  Cultural Bridges.	PDF Handout

 

Class 3 – February 27th

Layton, L. (2006). Racial identities, racial enactments, and normative unconscious processes.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 75(1), pp. 237-270. [Available on PEP Archive as cited]	PEP
Leary, K. (1997).  Race, self-disclosure, and “forbidden talk”:  Race and ethnicity in contemporary psychoanalytic practice.  In L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.), Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2:  Innovation and Expansion (pp. 417-440).  Hillsdale, NY:  The Analytic Press. [Available on PEP Archive, as cited in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1997, vol. 66, p. 163]	PEP
Eng. D.L. and Han, S. (2002).  A dialogue on racial melancholia. In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 233-267).  New York, NY:  Other Press. [Also available on PEP Archive, as cited in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2000; Vol 10(4), p. 667]	Fairfield, Chapter 7
Keval, N. (2006).  Understanding unbearable anxieties: The retreat into racism.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 150-159). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 12
Tan, R. (2006).  Racism and similarity: Paranoid-schizoid structures revisited.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 119-129). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 9

 

Class 4 – March 13th

Altman, N. (2006).  Black and white thinking:  A psychoanalyst reconsiders race.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 139-149). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 11
Thomas, B. (2008).  Seeing and being seen:  Courage and the therapist in cross-racial treatment.  Psychoanalytic Social Work 15(1) (pp. 60-68).	PDF Handout
McIntosh, P. (1988).  White privilege:  Unpacking the invisible knapsack. http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf	Online
Boykin, K. (2005).  A thousand different meanings.  In Beyond the Down Low:  Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America (pp. 1-21).  New York:  Carroll & Graf Publishers.	Scanned copy is on ICSW.edu
Cohler, B.J. and Galatzer-Levy, R.M. (2000).  Perspectives on the study of sexual orientation.  In The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives: Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 19-47).  The University of Chicago Press. [READ ONLY pages 24-30]	Scanned copy is on ICSW.edu

Greene, B. (2006).  African-American lesbians and gay men in psychodynamic psychotherapies? In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 163-176). New York:  Routledge.

Moodley, Chapter 13

 

Class 5 – March 27th

Layton, L. (2002).  Cultural hierarchies, splitting, and the heterosexist unconscious. In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 195-223).  New York:  Other Press.	Fairfield, Chapter 6
Leary, K. (2002). Response to Layton. In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 225-231).  New York:  Other Press.	Fairfield, Chapter 6a

Burch, B. (1998). Lesbian Sexuality/Female Sexuality: Searching for Sexual Subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Review, 85(3), 349-372. [Available on PEP Archive as cited]	PEP
Harris, A. (1991).  Gender as contradiction. In L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.), Relational Psychoanalysis:  The Emergence of a Tradition (pp. 305-335).  Hillsdale, NY:  The Analytic Press.  [READ ONLY Pages 322 to end, including Afterword].[Available on PEP Archive, cited in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol 1(2), pp 197-225]	PEP

 

 

 

 

 

Class 6 – April 17th

Dimen, M. (2001).  Perversion is us?  Eight notes.  In L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.), Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2:  Innovation and Expansion (pp. 377-415).  Hillsdale, NY:  The Analytic Press.  [Available on PEP Archive as cited in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, January 1, 2001, Vol. 11, Issue 6]

PEP

Bronski, M. (2002). Doctor Fell.  In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 279-294).  New York, NY:  Other Press. Dimen, M. (2002).  The Disturbance of sex:  A letter to Michael Bronski.  In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (295-308).  New York, NY:  Other Press. Bronski, M. (2002).  Sex, death, and the limits of irony:  A reply to Muriel Dimen.  In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 309-323).  New York, NY:  Other Press.

Fairfield, Chapters 8, 8a and 8b

 

Class 7 – May 1st

Strenger, C. (2005).  Finding ethnic identity and a place in western society.  In The designed Self:  Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Identities (pp. 99-126).  Hillsdale, NJ:  The Analytic Press.	Scanned copy is on ICSW.edu
Lijtmaer, R.M. (Black, white, Hispanic and both:  Issues in biracial identity and its effects in the transference-countertransference.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 130-138). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 10
Mishne, J. (2006).  Cultural identity and spirituality in psychotherapy.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 217-227). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 17
Stack, C. (2002). (Ir)reconcilable differences: A postmodern relational approach to a clinical case of alleged satanic ritual abuse.  In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 33-67).  New York, NY:  Other Press.	Fairfield, Chapter 3

 

Class 8 – May 15th

Final Paper Due. 

Dalal, F. (2006).  Culturalism in multicultural psychotherapy.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 36-45). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 3
Hoffman, I.Z. (2002).  In S. Fairfield, L. Layton & C. Stack (Eds.), Bringing the Plague:  Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (pp. 33-67).  New York, NY:  Other Press.	Fairfield, Chapter 1
Christopher, J.C. and Smith, A.J. (2006).  A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy.  In R. Moodley & S. Palmer (Eds.) Race, Culture and Psychotherapy:  Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice (pp. 265-280). New York:  Routledge.	Moodley, Chapter 21

 

 

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