An Equitable Psychoanalysis? Reply to Caflisch and Jones

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In their commentaries, Jane Caflisch and Annie Lee Jones offer compelling proposals: a model for interracial collectives focused on building something together, and an invitation to examine the inequitable access to psychoanalytic resources, such as a racialized referral system, and the possible resistances to such examination. In my response, I discuss these proposals.

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Noha Sadek

Noha Sadek, M.D., is a child psychiatrist and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, faculty at Brown Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, and member of the Program Committee at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She’s also a member of APsaA and the IPA. She has presented and published essays about class-related shame across the socioeconomic divide and the psychodynamics of Islamophobia and its impact on both Islamic and American cultural identities. Her paper, The phenomenology and dynamics of wealth shame: between moral responsibility and moral masochism, was awarded JAPA’s New Author Prize in 2020.