The Trauma of Racism

Beverly J. Stoute, M.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a training and supervising analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, and a child and adolescent supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She teaches on the faculty of multiple training programs and is an internationally recognized author, speaker, educator, clinician and organizational consultant ​in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael Slevin, MSW, a member of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, is in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a writer and editor on psychoanalytic issues. He has been active in bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practice into contexts outside the consulting room, to less privileged communities, and into political decision making.

Introduction Part 1: Historical Perspectives 1. Racism and Health Equity: A Challenge for the Therapeutic Dyad 2. Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in Our Nursery, 2nd edition 3. Race, African Americans, and Psychoanalysis: Collective Silence in the Therapeutic Situation Part 2: Living with the Trauma of Racism 4. African American Boys: Adolescents Under the Shadow of Slavery's Legacy 5. Loss, Grief, and Fear in Everyday Lives of African American Women 6. Everyday Racisim: Psychological Effects 7. Thinking Clinically about Post-Traumatic Reactions to Racial Trauma 8. From the Racially Provocative to the Evocative: Shaping the Destiny of the Racist Moment 9. "And How Are the Children?": Intergenerational Trauma and the Development of Black Children in America 10. Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression 11. Observations on the Use of the N-Word Part 3: Learning and Re-Learning Race 12. Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin's America 13. From Multicultural Competence to Radical Openness: A Psychoanalytic Engagement of Otherness 14. On Psychoanalysis, Race and Class in an Urban ER Part 4: Being Aware of White Privilege 15. How I Came to Understand White Privilege 16. On Racism and Being White: The Journey to Henry's Restaurant 17. "Am I the Only Black Kid that Comes Here?" 18. White Privilege and its Fissures: A Personal Perspective 19. "It Takes One to Know One" 20. Psychoanalysis by Surprise: An Ad Hoc Experiment in Community Psychoanalysis on a South African Wine Farm Part 5: Interpreting Racism in Jordan Peele's "Get Out" 21. Get Out of My Head: Experiencing Cultural Paranoia in Jordan Peele's "Get Out" 22. From "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" to "Get Out": Attaining Psychic Freedom and Emancipation Across the Racial Divide