Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis

What does it feel like to encounter ourselves and one another as implicated subjects, both in our everyday lives and in the context of our work as clinicians, and how does this matter?

Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay (she/her) is a founding board member and the co-director of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and is on the faculty of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center in New York. Her work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. David Mark is co-director of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. With Jeffrey Faude, he is the author of Psychotherapy of Cocaine Addiction: Entering the Interpersonal World of the Cocaine Addict (1997). Other works of his have appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

1. Introduction: Engaging Implicated Subjects 2. Getting Next to Ourselves: The Interpersonal Dimensions of Double-Consciousness 3. Recognition in the Face of Harm: Implicated Subjectivity and the Necessity of Acknowledgement 4. He's My Brother 5. Psychoanalytic Spaces, Implicated Places 6. The Other Within: White Shame, Native-American Genocide 7. Don't Blame The Mirror For Your Ugly Face (A Russian Idiom) 8. The Complexity of Implication for Racial Minority Immigrants 9. The Relational Citizen as Implicated Subject: Emergent Unconscious Processes in the Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory 10. Awakening to the Political - Or is it All an Undream? 11. Parental Implication and the Expansion of the Child Relational Therapist's Clinical Imagination 12. Implication as Central to a Relational Stance: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Racial Enactment