Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism: Members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice and Inclusivity - Paperback

by Christopher Jerome Carter (Editor), Tiffany Houck (Editor)

This important collection explores the attitude of white supremacy in analytic psychology starting with its founder, Carl Gustav Jung, utilizing Jungian analytic theory to explore ways in which the erroneous promotion of race ideology in psychoanalysis may be unmasked and corrected to further psychoanalytic theory and practice.

The book examines pejorative othering through intrapsychic and inter-relational lenses, identifying under-addressed attitudes and behaviors in which analytic training programs and learning communities may promote an attitude of white supremacy that lurks within Jungian theory. Through personal experiences and clinical vignettes, the authors exemplify a psychoanalytic method of deconstructing systematized and systemic racism within Jungian theory and within the practices of Jungians. In doing so, they utilize the specificity and ingenuity of Jung's analytic paradigm to offer insight into the work of anti-racism from a depth psychological perspective. The result of a unique collaboration of analysts and analysts-in-training who participate within the same Jungian learning community in New York City, this collection challenges Jungian analysts and organizations to reckon with ethnic and colour biases and to engage the hero's journey toward forgiveness, reconciling to diversity in promotion of greater individuation and increased organizational/communal inclusivity.

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism is a must-read for psychoanalytic students, trainees, supervisors, and practitioners, as well as for clinicians, medical professionals, social workers, mental health professionals, sociologists, and anyone interested in the wide impact of the unscientific construct of a 'race'.

Author Biography

Christopher Jerome Carter, MDiv, ThM, PhD, LP, NCPsyA is certified in Jungian analysis and is a licensed psychoanalyst practicing in New York. He is member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), the National Association for the Advancement of Analytic Psychology (NAAP), and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. 'Time for Space at the Table: An African American-Native American analyst-intraining's first-hand reflections. A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of C.G. Jung' was honored with the 2021 Gradiva Award (NAAP).

Tiffany Houck, MDiv, PhD, LP is a licensed psychoanalyst and a certified Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of History Through Trauma: History and Counter-History in the Hebrew Bible (2018, Wipf and Stock Publishers); as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters published at the intersection of studies in gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, religion, and trauma. She serves as a faculty member and the current Director of Training of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association.