| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 462 p.) |
| Contents |
The five hundred year history of African Americans / Jan Wright -- Psychoanalysis and African Americans : past, present, and future / Dionne R. Powell -- Command and legacy : Martin Luther King, Jr. / Salman Akhtar and Shawn Blue -- Ideology and identity : Malcolm X / Clarence Watson and Salman Akhtar -- Power and meaning : Muhammad Ali / David B. Campbell -- Resilience and influence : Oprah Winfrey / Glenda L. Wrenn -- Synthesis and leadership : Barack Obama / Kimberlyn Leary -- Anti-Black racism and the conception of whiteness / Forrest M. Hamer -- African American families : still a band of slaves? / LaShawnDa Pittman -- Personality development in different African American cultures / Carlotta Miles -- Hollywood and African Americans / Christin Drake -- An African American's becoming a psychoanalyst : some personal reflections / Samuel P. Wyche, Jr. -- The African-American patient in psychodynamic treatment / Cheryl L. Thompson -- Racial transference reactions in psychoanalytic treatment : an update / Dorothy Evans Holmes -- White analysts seeing black patients / Jennifer Bonovitz -- Racial enactments in dynamic treatment / Kimberlyn Leary |
| Summary |
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent families, the ruthlessness of anti-black racism, and the crushing burden of poverty and social disenfranchisement on the African American individual. The book also sheds light on the resilience of spirit, the dignity of perseverance, and the glow of talent that is widespread in this group. It contains penetrating and informative biographical essays on Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Mohammad Ali, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfrey. Such discourse on human greatness is balanced by the considerations of daily joy and anguish on clinical and societal levels. This wide-ranging and nuanced volume on the history, culture, and psychosocial struggles of African American people fills an important gap in the literature on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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African Americans -- Mental health.
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African Americans -- Psychology -- History
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Cultural psychiatry -- United States
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Psychoanalytic interpretation.
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Black or African American -- psychology
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Psychoanalytic Interpretation
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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Psychoanalytic interpretation
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African Americans -- Mental health
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African Americans -- Psychology
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Cultural psychiatry
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021698543 |
| ISBN |
9780765708373 |
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076570837X |
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1280880406 |
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9781280880407 |
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