Psychoanalytic Writings on Diverse Lives and Minds
The following represents a sampling of some important works in our literature bearing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is, necessarily, a partial list. We strongly encourage you to share with us references that have been meaningful you, so that we may add them here.
Papers
Adelson S et al, (2012) Practice Parameter on Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Sexual Orientation, Gender Nonconformity, and Gender Discordance in Children and Adolescents, J. Amer Acad. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 51 (9): 957–974
Akhtar, S. (1995). A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, And The Psychoanalytic Process. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 43:1051-1084.
Akhtar, S (2010). Muslims of the World: Less Familiar Narratives. Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Stud., 7:193-196.
Akhtar, S. (2014). The Mental Pain of Minorities. Brit. J. Psychother., 30:136153.
Altman N. (2006). Whiteness. Psychoanal Q., 75:45-72.
Altman, N. (2006). How Psychoanalysis Became White in the United States, and How that Might Change. Psychoanal. Perspect., 3:65-72.
Altman (2006) Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race. Psychoanal. Dial., 10:589-605.
Bockting WO et al (2006). Counseling and Mental Health Care of Transgender Adults and Loved Ones, International Journal of Transgenderism 9(3)
Bodnar, S. (2004). Remember Where You Come From: Dissociative Process in Multicultural Individuals. Psychoanal. Dial., 14:581-603.
Critchfield, A. and Pula, J. (2015): On Psychotherapy, LGBT identity, and Cultural Visibility: In Conversation with Alison Bechdel. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. 19: 397-412
Denny D (2002) A Selective Bibliography of Transsexualism, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 6(2):35-66
Drescher J, Byne W (2012) Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion, Journal of Homosexuality, 59 (3):295-300 (Also available in book format)
Eng, D.L., Han, S. (2000). A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10: 667-700.
Foster, P.R. (1996), The bilingual self: Duet in two voices. Psychoanal. Dial., 6: 99-121.
Friedman, R.A. (2015): How changeable is gender? New York Times, August 22, 2015
Grossmark R (2006). Step Across this Line: A personal reflection on the diverse experience. Psychanal. Perspect., 3:43-48.
Holmes, D. E. (1999). Race and countertransference: Two “blind spots” in psychoanalytic perception. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 1, 319-332
Holmes, D.E. (1992). Race and Transference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. International Journal of psychoanalysis. 73:1-11
Denny, D. (2002). A selective bibliography of transsexualism. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 6(2), 35–66
Ipp, H (2013) Introduction: The Immigrant Analyst: Journeys Beyond Otherness. Psychoanal Dial, 23:551-553.
Jacobs, L (2014) Learning to love white shame and guilt: Skills for working as as white therapist in a racially divided country. Int J Psychoanal. Self Psychol, 9:297-312
Leary, K. (1997). Race, self-disclosure and “forbidden talk”: race and ethnicity in contemporary clinical practice. Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 66: 163-189
Leary, K (2000). Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment. Psychoanal. Dial., 10:639-653.
Leary, K (2012). Race as an Adaptive Challenge: Working with diversity in the clinical consulting room. Psychoanal. Psychol, 29:279-291.
Lowe, F. (2008). Colonial Object Relations: Going Underground Black-White Relationships. Brit. J. Psychother., 24:20-33.
Mann, M.A. (2006). The formation and development of individual and ethnic identity: insights from psychiatry and psychoanalytic theory. American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 66: 211-224.
Marcus, BF (2013) “Strange and otherwise unaccountable actions:” Category, conundrum and Trans Identities. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 61:45-66.
McNamara S (2013) Gay Male Desires and Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century: How I listen. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 61: 341-361.
Miller, A.E., Josephs, L. (2009). Whiteness as Pathological Narcissism. Contemp. Psychoanal., 45:93-119.
Powell, D. R. (2021) Race Matters in Psychoanalytic Education (Psychoanalysis.today. Issue 14: Race, Caste, Class, Faith. July 16, 2021
Pula, J. (2015). Understanding Gender Through the Lens of Transgdender Experience. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 35(8): 809-822
Pula, J. (2016). The Role of the Psychiatrist Working with Transgender Patients. Psychiatric Annals. 46(6): 340-345
Roland, A. (1995). Value issues involving Western psychoanalysis with Asian patients. Journal of the American Academy Psychoanalysis. 23:283-292
Saketopoulou A (2014). Mourning the body as bedrock: developmental considerations in treating transsexual patients analytically. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Asssociation, 62(5):773-805. (Ralph Roughton Award and JAPA Prize)
Smolar, AI (1999) Bridging the Gap: Technical Aspects of the Analysis of an Asian Immigrant. J Clin. Psychoanal., 8:567-594.
Steensma, T, Biemond, R et al. (2011): Desisting and persisting gender dysphoria after childhood: a qualitative follow-up study. Clin. Child Psychol Psychiatry. 16: 499-516.Togashi, K. (2010). An Effort to Find Self Psychological Concepts in an Asian Culture. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol., 5:113-115.
Steensma, T, Biemond, R et al. (2011): Desisting and persisting gender dysphoria after childhood: a qualitative follow-up study. Clin. Child Psychol Psychiatry. 16: 499-516.
Weille, KH. (2002). The Psychodynamics of Consensual Sadomasochistic and Dominant-Submissive Sexual Games, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 3: 131-160.
Yi, K (1998). Transference and Race: An Intersubjective Conceptualization. Psychoanal. Psychology, 15:245-261.
Yi, K. (2014). Toward Formulation of Ethnic Identity beyond the Binary of White Oppressor and Racial Other. Psychoanal. Psychol., 31:426-434.
Young-Breuhl, E (2010). Sexual diversity in cosmopolitan perspective. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 11:1-9.
Journal volumes
Psychiatric Annals, (June, 2016), on “Transgender Mental Health”
Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2011) vol 21 on” Transgender Subjectivities”
Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2015) vol 35(8), on “Category/Gender”
Books and Book Chapters
Akhtar, S. (2005): Freud Along the Ganges: Psychoanalytic reflections on the People and Culture of India. New York: Other Press
Akhtar, S and Chosksi, K (2005) “Bollywood and the Indian Unconscious” in Akhtar, S. and Tummala-Narra, P, Freud Along the Ganges, Other Press, 472pp.
Akhtar, S. & Kramer, S. (1998). The Colors of Childhood: Separation-Individuation Across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Differences. Northvale, NJ: Aronson.
Akhtar, S. (2009). Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Korea, and Japan. Northvale, NJ: Aronson.
Beemyn G; Rankin S (2011) The Lives of Transgender People New York Columbia University Press
Corbett K (2016) A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High, New York Henry Holt and Co
Erickson-Schroth, L (2014) TransBodies TransSelves- A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford and New York Oxford University Press
Fanon, F. (1952) Black Skin, White Masks (1952), New York: Grove Press
Karasic D (2014) Transgender and gender non-conforming patients. In Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry. 2nd ed. (Lin R, ed.) Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 397-409
Kakar, S. (2001): The Essential Writings of Sudhir Kakar. New York: Oxford university Press
Liebow, E: (2003): Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. New York: Rowman and Littlefield
Meyerwitz J (2002) How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Powell, D.R., A Case Analysis of an Academic Scientist in Her Early Thirties: Authorship and Stolen Ambitions (2019 book Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership, Arnold & Brody, eds
Powell, D. Psychoanalysis and African Americans: Past, Present and Future, Powell DP in The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Jason Aronson, Inc., Salman Akhtar editor, 2012
Solomon, A (2102) Far from the Tree:Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, New York, Scribner, Chapter on Transgender
Sripada, S (2005) “Psychic Bisexuality, Male Homosexuality, Plural Oedipus Complex, and Hinduism” in Akhtar, S.and Tummala-Narra, P, Freud Along the Ganges, Other Press, 472pp.
Tummala-Narran, P. (2014). Cultural Identity in the Context of Trauma and Immigration from a Psychoanalytic Perspective. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31 (3), 396-409.
Uba, L. (2003). Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health. Guilford Press.
Vaughan, S.C. The Dignity of One’s Experience: Finding Dignity in the Lives of LGBT people. Chapter in Dignity, S. Akhtar, ed, Routledge 2015
Autobiography
Boylan, JF (2003) She's Not There: Life in Two Genders, New York, Random House
Coates, T. (2015): Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Graue
Green, J (2004) Becoming a Visible Man, Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press
Perez, R. (2014). Handbook for an Unpredictable Life. Three Rivers Press, New York,
Sotelo, E. Speak Up! Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2015, pp. 5-26.
Sotomayor, S. My Beloved World, Vintage Books, New York, NY, 2014