Commentary on Beverly Burch, “Engaging the Whitewashed Countertransference: Race Unexpectedly Appears for Therapy”

Lynne Layton, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and teaches Social Psychoanalysis in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-Psychologies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, and the recently published Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes. She is co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting, and she is on the steering committee of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign.
CONTACT Lynne Layton, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, 253 Mason Terrace, Brookline, MA 02446, USA.