ABSTRACT

This paper draws on critical race theory and research on attachment, social rank and dehumanization to theorize the implications of addressing anti-Blackness in psychotherapy with both Black and non-Black clients in the context of White Supremacy. Drawing on and critiquing a recent review of attachment theory and race, the author draws on historical and empirical research outlining the contours of a racial capitalist world. Recontextualizing attachment theory through this critical race theory lens, it will be argued psychotherapy must address anti-Blackness with both Black and non-Black clients, redefining therapeutic action not only as the provision of repair of interpersonal ruptures, but also as the capacity to mentalize about socio-historical ruptures, allowing space to clarify and pursue one’s values despite an anti-Black, capitalist and White Supremacist world. This paper will provide case examples illustrating these principles with Black and non-Black clients and conclude with their clinical and political implications.

摘要

本文利用批判性种族理论和关于依恋、社会等级和非人性化的研究，对在白人至上的背景下解决黑人和非黑人客户的心理治疗中的反黑人问题的影响进行理论化。作者借鉴并批评了最近对依恋理论和种族的评论，借鉴了概述种族资本主义世界轮廓的历史和实证研究。通过这个批判性的种族理论镜头重新对依恋理论进行情境化，将认为心理治疗必须解决黑人和非黑人客户的反黑人问题，将治疗行动重新定义为不仅提供人际破裂的修复，而且作为心理化的能力关于社会历史断裂，允许空间澄清和追求一个人的价值观，尽管是反黑人，资本主义和白人至上主义世界。本文将提供案例来说明黑人和非黑人客户的这些原则，并总结其临床和政治影响。