Culturally Imposed Trauma: The Sleeping Dog Has Awakened. Will Psychoanalysis Take Heed?

Dorothy Evans Holmes, Ph.D., is Teaching, Training, and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas. Also, she is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University, where she was Program Director and Director of Clinical Training in the Center for Professional Psychology from 2005 to 2011. She is also a Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes has written extensively on intrapsychic influences of race, gender, and their impact on psychoanalytic treatment process. She has served on the Ethics Committees of APsaA and the American Psychological Association, and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Presently, she is in private practice in Bluffton, SC.
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