REALITY MATTERS: The Shadow of Trauma on African American Subjectivity

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-54

  Gump, Janice P ^a  

^a Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; slavery; subjectivity; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY CONFLICT; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RACISM; SEXISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77249156866     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018639     Document Type: Article

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