Three Black patients training to be psychotherapists explore experiences of racial difference, rupture and repair with their White psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Therapists often fail to identify moments of rupture, particularly in relation to racial difference. Patient perspectives offer not simply a different voice but a different invitation to dialogue with transformative potential. Patients powerfully describe avoidance, silence, shame, hate and racial identifications and disidentifications, but also a process of coming to recognition and repair. The dual tensions of being a patient and trainee are explored. The underexplored viewpoint of patient/trainee holds implications for therapists and for working with racial difference.

三名接受过心理治疗师培训的黑人患者与他们的白人心理分析心理治疗师一起探讨了种族差异，破裂和修复的经验。治疗师通常无法确定破裂时刻，尤其是与种族差异有关的时刻。患者的观点不仅提供了不同的声音，而且邀请了具有变革性潜力的对话者。患者有力地描述了回避，沉默，羞耻，仇恨和种族认同与不认同，同时也描述了获得认可和修复的过程。探索了成为患者和受训者的双重张力。对患者/学员的探索不足，对治疗师和种族差异的工作有影响。