ABSTRACT
This chapter uses published clinical experiences to demonstrate that people, including therapists and their patients, have complex and contradictory racially based feelings and attitudes that can evolve and change in an intersubjective context. Therapists, as well-meaning and psychologically enlightened as they may be, need to be vigilant about prejudiced feelings and attitudes that may manifest in their clinical work. The patient may note prejudice in their therapists; it can be a challenge, but a worthwhile and therapeutic one, for therapists to learn from what their patients perceive. In an intersubjective context, when both parties are open, the prejudicial or stereotypical attitudes of both parties can be exposed and subject to re-evaluation and revision.
