Unmasking Race, Culture, and Attachment in the Psychoanalytic Space

by Kate White

Overview

Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race and culture. Can our individual narratives in relation to race, culture and attachment be unmasked in the therapeutic dyad to reveal our human connectedness? The contributors explore how the conscious and unconscious meanings of therapists' and clients' racial and cultural identities shape the dialogue between them. How this emerges for both therapist and client in their work together is illustrated in clinical accounts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855754058
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2006
Series:	The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kate White is a training therapist, supervisor, and teacher at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CAPP). Formerly Senior Lecturer at South Bank University in the Department of Nursing and Community Health Studies, she has used her extensive experience in adult education to contribute to the innovative psychotherapy curriculum developed at CAPP. In addition to working as an individual psychotherapist, Kate runs workshops on the themes of attachment and trauma in clinical practice. Informed by her experience of growing up in South Africa, she has long been interested in the impact of race and culture on theory and on clinical practice.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

1950

Place of Birth:

Glens Falls, New York

Education:

Union College, 1972

Website:

http://www.KateWhite.com

Table of Contents

Introduction to the monograph of the 12th John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2005 — Attachment theory and the John Bowlby Memorial Lecture — Racism — Revisiting the concepts of racism and culture: Some thoughts on the clinical implications — Difference — Invisibility — Unmasking difference, culture, and attachment in the psychoanalytic space — The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2005 — Response to Kimberlyn Leary's paper — Introduction to the Centre for Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy