Reflections on Three Decades of Being a South-Asian American Analyst

Abstract

In this paper, the author, a South Asian American female analyst, discusses her technical approach to working with patients across ethnic, racial, religious, and sociopolitical boundaries. She also describes the trajectory of her analytic career over three decades: both the challenges and the high points. Certain problems in organized psychoanalysis, especially about minorities, are briefly discussed.

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cross-cultural psychoanalysis the social prejudice Jewish-Muslim analytic dyad organized psychoanalysis envy in psychoanalytic organizations

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