From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives offers a unique contribution to our understanding both of what compels us to descend into polarized positions, as well as how we may gain rescue from such.

Maxine K. Anderson, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst for several psychoanalytic institutes in North America, Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and Fellow of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, in private practice in Seattle, Washington.

DEDICATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE MIND MAY DISTORT REALITY IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN SECURITY AND STABILITY

CHAPTER 1: THE MYTH OF WHITE SUPREMACY

CHAPTER 2: SEEKING SECURITY AMID EMOTIONAL TURBULENCE

PART II: THE MIND FACES FEARED REALITIES: RESCUE VIA COURAGE AND ATTENTIVE CARE

CHAPTER 3: SEEKING SECURITY VIA CARE AND THOUGHT

CHAPTER 4: LESSONS DERIVED FROM CARE, COURAGE AND SELF-RESPECT

CHAPTER 5: TRANSFORMATIONS VIA TRUST IN THE AS YET UNKNOWABLE

CHAPTER 6: APPRECIATING THE PAIN OF INTEGRATION

CHAPTER 7: SUMMARY REFLECTIONS

INDEX

REFERENCES