ABSTRACT It is essential that the psychoanalytic community begin to observe and study racism’s effects, its transgenerational and structurally embedded manifestations, so that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy can be more helpful to Black people, and especially to Black children and adolescents, whose developing psyches are, unfortunately, being shaped within a culture of ongoing, if unacknowledged, racism. Black children are caught in the crosshairs of society’s brutal stereotypes that exclude them from social, educational, and employment opportunities. Such exclusions are sometimes exacerbated by their own non-adaptive responses to the hostile culture in which they live, thus affirming deep-seated racialized beliefs and social structures. Greater psychoanalytic attention to theorizing and understanding cultural attitudes on race, to understanding the impact of racism on how we think about Black boyhood with a psychoanalytic interrogation of transgenerational trauma, could positively impact our understanding of how racism impacts the therapeutic process for us all as clinicians and as citizens. It is doubtful that we will ever make the therapeutic arena hospitable to Black boys or Black men without integrating in our theoretical formulations the insidious effect of structural racism in American society impacting clinicians in all areas of mental health care.

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风暴眼中的黑人男孩

摘要 精神分析界必须开始观察和研究种族主义的影响、其跨代和结构嵌入的表现，这样精神分析和心理治疗才能对黑人更有帮助，尤其是对黑人儿童和青少年来说，不幸的是，他们的心理正在发育。 ，在持续的（如果不被承认的）种族主义文化中形成。黑人儿童陷入社会残酷刻板印象的十字路口，这些刻板印象将他们排除在社会、教育和就业机会之外。这种排斥有时会因他们自己对所生活的敌对文化的非适应性反应而加剧，从而肯定了根深蒂固的种族化信仰和社会结构。更多的精神分析关注理论化和理解关于种族的文化态度，通过对跨代创伤的精神分析审讯来理解种族主义对我们如何看待黑人童年的影响，可能会对我们对种族主义如何影响我们作为临床医生和公民的治疗过程的理解产生积极影响。如果不将美国社会结构性种族主义对心理保健各个领域临床医生的阴险影响纳入我们的理论构想，我们是否会让黑人男孩或黑人接受治疗，这是值得怀疑的。