Reaching Across Boundaries of Culture and Class

RoseMarie Pérez Foster, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the NYU Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, a faculty member of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center. Michael Moskowitz, Ph.D., is adjunct associate professor in the City University of New York Clinical Psychology program, a publisher at Jason Aronson Inc., and is in private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in NYC. Rafael Art. Javier, Ph.D., is clinical professor of psychology and director of the Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York.

This book is long overdue. It brings to the forefront the need to have a transcultural perspective in doing psychodynamic therapy. The authors demonstrate that the self-understanding offered through psychodynamic therapy is indeed accessible when practiced by culturally informed practitioners. All psychotherapists who practice in our multicultural society should read this book.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 What is a Multicultural Perspective for Psychoanalysis?Chapter 3 The Social Conscience of PsychoanalysisChapter 4 Psychoanalysis in an Historic-Economic PerspectiveChapter 5 How Universal is the Psychoanalytic Self?Chapter 6 Psychodynamic Treatment with the Urban PoorChapter 7 The African-American Patient in Psychodynamic TreatmentChapter 8 Working-Class IssuesChapter 9 Countertransference in Cross-Cultural PsychotherapyChapter 10 The End of AnalyzabilityChapter 11 The Accommodation of Diversity in PsychoanalysisChapter 12 Skin Color in PsychotherapyChapter 13 In Search of Repressed Memories in Bilingual IndividualsChapter 14 Assessing the Psychodynamic Function of Language in the Bilingual Patient