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Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of those engaged in or experiencing racism?

This book explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped - 'racial' - other, providing a clinically derived model of how racist dynamics play out in the mind. Presenting an original theory of the psychology of racism, it:

- Reviews and analyses the existing literature on racism and psychoanalysis, including an extensive study of Frantz Fanon's psychological model
- Presents new, in-depth clinical observations of racist interchanges in the consulting room and group settings, and new perspectives on such interchanges in the outside world
- Theorizes the way in which the race/class divide is internalized and operates, and considers the relationship between individual and institutional racism
- Illustrates how racism can be addressed in group and individual settings

Arguing that we cannot work with problems of racism without understanding the inner processes that underpin it, this book is an indispensable tool for trainee and experienced psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and counsellors. Its formulations are directly relevant to professionals and academics working across the boundaries of race in health, medical and social service settings.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• Foreword (p. xi)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• The Impact of Racism (p. 1)
• Racism Inside and Out (p. 6)
• Psychoanalysis and Racism: A Problematic Engagement (p. 7)
• This Book (p. 11)
• Terminology: The "Racial Other" (p. 15)
• Part I Internal Racism
• 2 A Clinical Study of a Racist Attack (p. 19)
• A Comfortable Beginning (p. 19)
• The Attack (p. 21)
• Countertransference (p. 23)
• A Paranoid Transference (p. 25)
• A Defensive Organization Built Upon Ethnic Difference (p. 28)
• Supporting Evidence (p. 32)
• Conclusion (p. 35)
• 3 Theoretical Considerations (p. 37)
• Defensive Organizations (p. 37)
• Theory of Internal Racism (p. 42)
• Internal Racism in Normal Development (p. 54)
• Conclusion (p. 63)
• 4 An Established Racist Organization (p. 65)
• Background (p. 65)
• The Analysis (p. 66)
• An Anti-Semitic Defensive Organization (p. 73)
• Evidence of Analytic Progress (p. 76)
• Discussion (p. 80)
• Conclusion (p. 81)
• 5 Analysing Racism in a Group (p. 83)
• Context (p. 83)
• Structure of the Event (p. 85)
• A Small Group (p. 86)
• Discussion (p. 95)
• Conclusion (p. 104)
• Part II The Psychoanalytic Context
• 6 Frantz Fanon: The Black Problem (p. 107)
• The Black Problem (p. 108)
• Mannoni's Psychology of Colonialism (p. 115)
• Theory (p. 121)
• Race/Class Difference and the Oedipus Complex (p. 124)
• Fanon's Theory (p. 134)
• Conclusion (p. 142)
• 7 Psychoanalysis and Racism: Anti-Semitism (p. 144)
• The Psychoanalytic Silence on Race (p. 144)
• Anti-Semitism (p. 152)
• Conclusion (p. 172)
• 8 White-Black Racism (p. 175)
• Anti-Black Racism (p. 175)
• Psychoanalysis and the Racial/Cultural Other (p. 181)
• Clinical Encounters Across the Racial Divide (p. 189)
• Conclusion (p. 201)
• Part III Application
• 9 Institutional Racism (p. 205)
• The Racism of Everyday Life (p. 205)
• Institutional Racism (p. 207)
• Identifying Hidden Racism (p. 211)
• Individual and Institution (p. 218)
• Conclusion (p. 227)
• Concluding Remarks (p. 229)
• Notes (p. 232)
• Bibliography (p. 237)
• Index (p. 249)

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