Invisible: A Mixt Asian Woman’s Efforts to See and Be Seen in Psychoanalysis

ABSTRACT

The multiracial experience is only minimally addressed in psychoanalytic literature. This paper makes use of both Dr. Crane’s lived experience as a multiracial Asian American female and her encounters with psychoanalysis. Directed to the only psychoanalytic literature focused on non-white individuals, Dr. Crane found a strong and growing body addressing the experiences of both Black people in the United States and Black analysts at work. Thanks to ground prepared by pioneering Black analysts and intellectuals, multiracial clinicians and academics have opened up the psychoanalytic discourse to mixed-race voices.

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¹ For more information, see Usha Tummala-Narra’s extensive body of work, including Tummala-Narra (2001), Tummala-Narra (2004), Tummala-Narra (2007), Tummala-Narra (2009), Tummala-Narra (2011), Tummala-Narra (2014), Tummala-Narra (2015), and Tummala-Narra (2016).

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Leilani Salvo Crane

Dr. Leilani Salvo Crane is a psychologist in private practice in Manhattan and honors the Lenape land on which she stands. Dr. Crane focuses her practice on serving primarily Asian, Asian American, and mixed-race individuals from a liberatory psychology stance that is psychoanalytically informed. She also has expertise in treating individuals struggling with eating disorders and varieties of traumas, including sociocultural trauma.