ABSTRACT This paper is drawn from doctoral research investigating whether cross-cultural psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the transference relationship can be helpful in the development of the self of an adolescent BAME patient. I will refer to some of the findings from the doctoral research and from the material in the patient’s three-and-a-half years intensive psychotherapy, to show how her ideas of self, ‘other’, gender and sexuality were affected, in a particular way, by her experience of inhabiting family, social and political environments she experienced as hostile. This paper will describe how child psychotherapy can be crucial in supporting adolescents negotiate their identity, when the environments they inhabit act to impede this. I will pay particular attention to how the transference and countertransference can be used to understand and tend to the patient’s ideas of self and other that have been informed by the post-colonial beliefs embedded in the environments they inhabit.

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“敌对环境”和青春期女孩的治疗之旅*

摘要 本文来自博士研究，调查跨文化精神分析心理治疗和移情关系是否有助于青少年 BAME 患者的自我发展。我将参考博士研究的一些发现和患者三年半强化心理治疗的材料，以展示她的自我、“他者”、性别和性取向的观念是如何受到影响的。尤其是她在充满敌意的家庭、社会和政治环境中的经历。本文将描述儿童心理治疗如何在支持青少年协商他们的身份方面发挥关键作用，而当他们居住的环境阻碍这一进程时。