While there has been increasing attention directed toward sociocultural issues in psychoanalytic scholarship and recent efforts to integrate cultural competence as a core emphasis in psychoanalytic theory and practice, there have been no empirical investigations of how cultural competence is conceptualized by psychoanalytic psychologists. The present study aimed to examine how psychoanalytic psychologists approach cultural competence in psychotherapy. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 psychologists (10 men and 10 women; 12 White, 4 Latino/a, 2 African American, 1 Asian American, 1 Multiracial) with at least 10 years of experience in providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy with clients from socially and culturally diverse backgrounds. Data was analyzed using conventional content analysis (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005), revealing 4 broad domains and several themes within each of these domains. The 4 broad domains included (a) Complexity of identity and affect, (b) Conscious and unconscious dynamics between therapist and client, (c) Social oppression and traumatic stress, and (d) Therapist’s ongoing commitment to self-reflection. The findings support a process-oriented conceptualization of cultural competence. The implications of the findings for research, training, and practice are discussed.

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精神分析心理学家对心理治疗中文化能力的概念化。

虽然精神分析学术界越来越关注社会文化问题，并且最近努力将文化能力作为精神分析理论和实践的核心重点，但还没有关于精神分析心理学家如何概念化文化能力的实证研究。本研究旨在探讨精神分析心理学家如何处理心理治疗中的文化能力。对 20 名心理学家（10 名男性和 10 名女性；12 名白人、4 名拉丁裔/a、2 名非洲裔美国人、1 名亚裔美国人、1 名多种族）进行了半结构化访谈，他们至少有 10 年为来自社会和文化背景的客户提供精神分析心理治疗的经验不同的背景。使用传统的内容分析 (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005) 分析数据，揭示了 4 个广泛的领域和每个领域中的几个主题。这 4 个广泛的领域包括 (a) 身份和情感的复杂性，(b) 治疗师和来访者之间有意识和无意识的动态，(c) 社会压迫和创伤压力，以及 (d) 治疗师对自我反省的持续承诺。研究结果支持以过程为导向的文化能力概念化。讨论了研究结果对研究、培训和实践的影响。