ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critique of a multicultural competency orientation and offers a stance of radical openness as an alternative. Derived from the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and from the psychoanalytic premise of the ubiquity of unconsciousness on the part of psychotherapist and patient alike, radical openness is conceived as a disciplined therapeutic stance of attempting to notice, question, and relinquish presumptions about oneself and the other in the dialogic situation of the psychoanalytic conversation and in conversations about race, racism, discrimination, and otherness more broadly.
