African American Patients in Psychotherapy
Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression
By Ruth Fallenbaum | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
About the book
African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even \"small\" racist enactments, the black patient's uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of \"black rage.\" Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft.
Editions of African American Patients in Psychotherapy
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780815371380
- EBook
- ISBN 9781351181365
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African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even \"small\" racist enactments, the black patient's uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of \"black rage.\" Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft.
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African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even \"small\" racist enactments, the black patient's uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of \"black rage.\" Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft.
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Medicine and Nursing > Medical specialties, branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
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Ruth Fallenbaum
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African American Patients in Psychotherapy is available as paperback(ISBN 9780815371380) and ebook(ISBN 9781351181365)