{"id":5901,"date":"2010-03-11T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2010-03-11T23:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:17:05","slug":"mixed-race-and-the-negotiation-of-racialized-selves-developing-the-capacity-for-internal-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/content~db=all~content=a914110457\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t783567626\" target=\"_blank\">Psychoanalytic Dialogues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g914118477\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 19, Issue 4<\/a> (July 2009)<br \/>\npages 426 &#8211; 441<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1080\/10481880903088021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Bonovitz<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy &amp; Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further understanding the negotiation of conflict and dissociation in biracial patients who are both African-American and White. Drawing on the work of contemporary theorists who have made efforts to navigate the relationship between inner and outer worlds in our understanding of race from a psychoanalytic perspective, the author examines the relationship between race, culture, and internalized self-other relationshow they interact with each other and impact splitting and dissociative processes among self-states. The author argues for a notion of the unconscious as one that contains historical trauma related to race relations that influences the developing capacity to sustain internal conflict between opposing self-states borne out of this trauma. The author shows how society works against the integration of racialized self-states and interferes with the capacity to contain conflict. Through an extended clinical vignette from an analysis of a mixed-race patient, the author looks at the interplay of self-states between a White analyst (author) and a mixed-race patient (African-American and White) as manifested through a series of enactments and the unconscious mating between dissociated self-states in both patient and analyst. The author argues that the analyst&#8217;s engagement of his or her own dissociated self-states and containment of internal conflict is critical to aiding the patient in moving toward greater integration.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a914110457~fulltext=713240930\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 426 &#8211; 441 DOI: 10.1080\/10481880903088021 Christopher Bonovitz William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy &amp; Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,6],"tags":[2443,2442],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","tag-christopher-bonovitz","tag-psychoanalytic-dialogues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}