Discussion of “Hunting the Real”

Abstract

In her paper, “Hunting the Real” Wallerstein discusses the challenges of providing good-enough clinical services on an under-resourced in-patient psychiatric unit, with African American males experiencing various types of psychosis. I comment from a variety of perspectives including, culture, institutionalized racism, and the under-thematization of Blackness in psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique.

Keywords:

• Black
• males
• psychosis
• treatment
• psychoanalysis

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C. Jama Adams

C. Jama Adams, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Africana Studies, City University of New York. Research interests include, psychoanalysis in relation to persons of Africana heritage.