ABSTRACT
Relational psychodynamics of the analytic dyad can lead to the recognition of shared encounters that offer an opportunity for exploration of the patient's introduction of recent life events. On the surface, these experiences do not appear to be related to what has gone before but can lead to the resurfacing of aspects of their unresolved mourning. The intergenerational transmission of trauma attached to migration from home and the racialized aspects of the therapeutic encounter resurface in the therapeutic relationship and allow for a mutually transformative working through.
