Discussion of “Hunting the Real”

Abstract

This discussion of Hannah Wallerstein’s paper, “Hunting the Real,” approaches racial difference from the perspective of a white psychoanalyst. Themes of racial injustice, the limitations of empathy, and the ethical mandate to explore these issues in treatments are discussed.

Keywords:

• racial injustice
• racism
• psychosis
• projective identification
• trauma

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Hunting the Real: Psychosis and Race in the American Hospital

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Lynne Zeavin

Lynne Zeavin, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in full time practice in New York City. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. An Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, she also serves on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Division/Review. She has published on a variety of topics exploring female sexuality, racism, beauty, neutrality, the frame, and various aspects of Kleinian theory. She has a particular interest in the nature of the internal object and its impact on psychic life and on the analytic relationship. Dr. Zeavin is co-founder of the Rita Frankiel Memorial Fellowship funded by the Melanie Klein Trust and is a founder of Second Story, a non-institutional psychoanalytic space in New York City. She is the former chairperson of the fellowship program of APsaA and a member of Green Gang, a four person psychoanalytic collective dedicated to the study of our human relationship with the natural world.