The African American experience : psychoanalytic perspectives / / Salman Akhtar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823601503321
• Autore: Akhtar Salman <1946 July 31->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, : Jason Aronson, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-88040-6; 9786613721716; 0-7657-0837-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.890089/96073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Mental health; African Americans - Psychology - History; Cultural psychiatry - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Core Stories; Chapter One: The Five Hundred Year History of African Americans; Chapter Two: Psychoanalysis and African Americans: Past, Present, and Future; 2: Character Studies; Chapter Three: Command and Legacy: Martin Luther King, Jr.; Chapter Four: Ideology and Identity: Malcolm X; Chapter Five: Power and Meaning: Muhammad Ali; Chapter Six: Resilience and Influence: Oprah Winfrey; Chapter Seven: Synthesis and Leadership: Barack Obama; 3: Cultural Spectrum; Chapter Eight: Anti-Black Racism and the Conception of Whiteness; Chapter Nine: African American Families: Still a Band of Slaves?Chapter Ten: Personality Development in Different African American Cultures; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood and African Americans; 4: Clinical Strands; Chapter Twelve: An African American's Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Some Personal Reflections; Chapter Thirteen: The African-American Patient in Psychodynamic Treatment; Chapter Fourteen: Racial Transference Reactions in Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Update; Chapter Fifteen: White Analysts Seeing Black Patients; Chapter Sixteen: Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment; References; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent families, the ruthlessness of anti-black racism, and the crushing burden of poverty and social disenfranchisement on the African American individual.