ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of systemic racism on an interracial therapeutic dyad between a white therapist and an African American adolescent male. Leary (2000) operationalized the term “racial enactments” and made the important point that its “most common” manifestation “has been our relative silence about racial issues” (p. 647). It is the premise of this paper that the youth of color’s subjective experience of racial microaggressions and assaults experienced on a daily basis must be validated and explored prior to a meaningful intersubjective exploration in the clinical encounter. The emphasis in this paper is on the racial enactment that precedes the clinical encounter. A treatment vignette is used to highlight the intersection of social and psychic spheres of human experience and how an awareness of unconscious bias in the therapist can facilitate a more meaningful dialogue in which priority is given to the emergence of a powerful client narrative voice.

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探索跨种族治疗二人组中的种族行为，以加强非裔美国男性青少年的声音和身份认同

摘要本文的目的是检查系统性种族主义对白人治疗师和非裔美国青少年男性之间的跨种族治疗二人组的影响。Leary (2000) 将“种族行为”一词付诸实践，并强调其“最常见”的表现“是我们对种族问题的相对沉默”（第 647 页）。本文的前提是，在临床遭遇中进行有意义的主体间探索之前，必须验证和探索有色人种青年对日常种族微侵略和攻击的主观体验。本文的重点是在临床遭遇之前的种族制定。