ABSTRACT Ruptures, including racial microaggressions, are inevitable in therapy. Because they are subtle and subject to alternative explanations, identifying and illustrating racial microaggressions have been challenging. To critically reflect on such ruptures and ultimately repair the alliance with clients, scholars urge the significance of studying “how” racial microaggressions emerge and become visible in psychotherapy. Drawn from transcripts of actual therapy sessions, we select segments where racially and culturally relevant conversation occurred. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how clients and therapists reify or resist contested values, norms, and power in therapy by using various discursive tactics in therapy conversation. Our findings illustrate different forms of racial microaggression, how they are managed in moment-to-moment interactions, and how they are associated with dominant values and norms that shape the therapists’ treatment selections in cross-racial encounters. These microdetailed illustrations help therapists to critically reflect on their own behaviors, increase their sensitivity to cultural narratives in therapy communications, and suggest how to better hear and validate cumulative injuries of racial microaggressions that many racialized minority clients often face in psychotherapy.

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日常治疗中的种族微侵略行为

摘要 破裂，包括种族微攻击，在治疗中是不可避免的。因为它们是微妙的并且受其他解释的影响，所以识别和说明种族微侵略一直具有挑战性。为了批判性地反思这种破裂并最终修复与客户的联盟，学者们敦促研究种族微攻击“如何”在心理治疗中出现并变得可见的重要性。我们从实际治疗课程的记录中提取，选择发生种族和文化相关对话的片段。使用批判性话语分析，我们探索客户和治疗师如何通过在治疗对话中使用各种话语策略来具体化或抵制治疗中存在争议的价值观、规范和权力。我们的发现说明了不同形式的种族微侵略，如何在即时互动中管理它们，以及它们如何与影响治疗师在跨种族遭遇中的治疗选择的主导价值观和规范相关联。这些微观细节的插图帮助治疗师批判性地反思自己的行为，提高他们对治疗交流中的文化叙事的敏感性，并建议如何更好地倾听和验证许多种族化的少数群体客户在心理治疗中经常面临的种族微侵略的累积伤害。