Therapeutic Challenges within the Antisocial Framing of Incarceration and Race

1. Therapeutic Challenges within the Antisocial Framing of Incarceration and Race

2. Two Conundrums • Largely professional white therapists … and largely poor people of color clients… what is it to be a white ally in this setting? • Psychotherapy frame vs. incarceration frame (holding-containment) … what is it to do therapy in a forensic setting?

3. Critical Race Theory • Individual prejudice vs. Institutional racism • Ethnicity vs. Race • Nature vs. Nurture • Old vs. New Types of Racism

4. Psychology and Race? • Race and Personality Disorders? (e.g. Joel Kovel’s White Racism) • Race and Psychoanalytic concepts of • 1. Instincts? • 2. Objects? • 3. Archetypes? • 4. Sex/Gender? • 5. Defense Mechanisms • *6. Projections • *7. Fantasy? • *8. Frame?

5. Review of Personality Disorders B A C

6. B A C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive

7. B A C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive Fearful, Anxious, Neurotic Breakdowns

8. Paranoid Schizotypal B A Schizoid C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive

9. Psychotic Breaks Paranoid Schizotypal B A Schizoid C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive

10. Antisocial Narcissist Paranoid Schizotypal B A Histrionic Borderline Schizoid C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive

11. Dramatic, Impulsive Breaking-out/Acting-out Antisocial Narcissist Paranoid Schizotypal B A Histrionic Borderline Schizoid C Dependent Avoidant Obsessive

12. What connects or structures the clusters—at what points do they meet? Cynic? B A C Rescuer? Detective?

13. What corner is blocked out? Cynic? A B C Rescuer? Detective?

14. Cynic? B A C Rescuer? Detective?

15. Cynic? B A C Rescuer? Detective?

16. How are the corners blocked in or out …or “framed”? B A C ?

17. Frame I Cynic? B A C Rescuer? Detective? Neurotic Frame

18. Frame II-A Cynic? A B C Rescuer? Detective? Cynical Frame

19. Frame II-B Cynic? B A C Rescuer? Detective? Cynical Frame

20. Basic Idea of a Frameand Projection Inside Included Centered Acceptable Normal Outside Excluded Ignored Unacceptable Abnormal

21. Specific Idea of …(1) what’s inside: Protected Ego

22. …(2) what the frame itself is: Protected Ego Social conventions, rules, laws, limits, norms, boundaries.

23. …(3) applied to whiteness: Protected White Ego White Norms

24. … (4), what’s outside: Scary parts of oneself that are: excluded, repressed, split-off, projected outside! Protected Ego ??? ???

25. …(5) applied to the notion of fantasy: Cynical In-the-Know Fantasy Protected Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detective Fantasy Frame

26. Cluster C: Avoidant White!!! Cynical Knowledge!!!!! Avoidant White Ego ??? ??? Repressive White Frame

27. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • White pity/idealization: identifying with “those poor people!” Repressive White Frame

28. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • Selectively pointing out the “elephant in the room!” Repressive White Frame

29. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • Others have failed to help because at bottom they are cold-hearted. Repressive White Frame

30. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • White empathy: My special trusting love will cure all! Repressive White Frame

31. Cluster C: Dependent White • Laughing at and guilt-tripping all narcissistic naiveté. Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives Repressive White Frame

32. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • Rescuer needing rescue: hurt, fearful, I resentfully retreat back into the frame. Repressive White Frame

33. Cluster C: Dependent White Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • Professionals to the rescue, taking control! Repressive White Frame

34. Trust or empathy is not the issue! • “We must remember that although we want to be trustworthy, trust is not the issue. We are not fighting racism so that people of color will trust us. Trust builds over time through our visible efforts to be allies and fight racism. Rather than trying to be safe and trustworthy, we need to be more active, less defensive, and put issues of trust aside.” Paul Kivel Uprooting Racism

35. Cluster C: Obsessive White Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detective Fantasy • Ignorant, at risk, vulnerable peoples needing help. Repressive White Frame

36. Cluster C: Obsessive White Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents • Professional Detective Fantasy • Responsible, quick fix-it focus on details and blind spots. Repressive White Frame

37. Cluster C: Obsessive White • Laughing at and guilt-tripping the repeated failures. Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detective Fantasy • Angry about not being really helped. Repressive White Frame

38. Cluster C: Obsessive White Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detective Fantasy • Reinforced sense of “white man’s burden” and need to enforce the frame. Repressive White Frame

39. Cynical In-the-Know Fantasy? • Laughing at and guilt-tripping all narcissistic naiveté. • Laughing at and guilt-tripping the repeated failures. Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detectives Frame?

40. Different Ways of Framing

41. Cynical In-the-know Fantasy • Knowing that the frame --though rigid and visible-- is arbitrary, biased, constructed. • As is the frame of race! • Enjoying this knowledge for its certainty: In the know, above being duped or fooled or suckered, above the law. • ???

42. Cluster C: Dependent White • Laughed at and guilt-tripped for a narcissistic naiveté. Cynics White Ego Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • My trust, empathy, love will cure all! • As long as you don’t abuse my good will! Repressive White Frame

43. Cluster B: Borderline White In-the-Know Cynics False Labeled Self Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • No one understands me! Except maybe you?! Labeling White Frame

44. Cluster B: Borderline White In-the-Know Cynics False Labeled Self Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • White envy • White exoticization Labeling White Frame

45. Cluster B: Borderline White In-the-Know Cynics False Labeled Self Innocent Rescue Fantasy Professional Detectives • Easily charmed, flattered, seduced. • Then victimized and misunderstood again. Labeling White Frame

46. The Rescuer’s Basic Life Lesson • Empathy, trust, love, comfort, acceptance, safety … are not the main issues. Changing the institutional frame trap is the issue. • Importance of letting go of a Cinderella/Dogville double standard. (What if you treated them the way you let them treat you?) • Importance of mourning a loss of innocence. (e.g. Pinderhughes Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Power. p. 107.)

47. Cluster B: Antisocial • Cynical In-the-Know Fantasy • so cool, so hardened, so heartless …so funny False Labeled Self Naïve Innocents Professional Detectives • Always the weakest and most vulnerable as the target. Without mercy. Labeling Frame

48. Cluster C: Obsessive White • Laughed at and guilt-tripped for repeated failures. Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detective Fantasy • Reinforced sense of “white man’s burden” and need to enforce the frame. Repressive White Frame

49. The Professional Detective’s Basic Life Lesson • Importance of letting go of control and mourning loss of quick-fix competence and autonomy. • Danger of bureaucratic, passive-aggressive, paper-pushing, passing-the-buck stance. Commit, risk being wrong, be real! (e.g. Kivel’s dialogue, p. 99)

50. Cluster C: Obsessive White • Laughed at and guilt-tripped for repeated failures. Cynics White Ego Naïve Innocents Professional Detective Fantasy • Reinforced sense of “white man’s burden” and need to enforce the frame. Repressive White Frame