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ABSTRACT
The present paper is a response to Dr. Burch’s clinical case and theoretical discussion (this issue) regarding the process of working with and through white privilege and whitewashing in her consulting room. In response to Dr. Burch’s thorough and careful effort to remain conscious of culture while working within a white dyad (white female patient and white female clinician), I offer personal and emotional experiences as an illustration of white disavowal, (i.e., whitewashing), of essential cultural and socioeconomic knowledge. I also suggest that the intellectualization and politicization of culture and socioeconomic systems can be seen as whitewashing within the field of psychoanalysis, and propose an integration of personal and emotional experiences regarding these systems as a critical part of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
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June Lee Kwon
June Lee Kwon, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist whose clinical work takes place in her private practice in the lower Manhattan and Brooklyn office of STEPS, Stress and Trauma Evaluation and Psychological Services. She is a clinical supervisor for doctoral students in Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University and serves as a mentor for early career psychologists in the Psychoanalysis division of American Psychological Association. She is currently a candidate in New York University’s postdoctoral program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (NYU Postdoc) where she also serves as a chair of ForAll, a committee that supports NYU Postdoc affiliated psychologists who work full time in various institutional settings, including psychiatric hospitals, medical centers, and low-fee community clinics.