Invisible: A Mixt Asian Woman’s Efforts to See and Be Seen in Psychoanalysis

Abstract

ABSTRACT The multiracial experience is only minimally addressed in psychoanalytic literature. This paper makes use of both Dr. Crane’s lived experience as a multiracial Asian American female and her encounters with psychoanalysis. Directed to the only psychoanalytic literature focused on non-white individuals, Dr. Crane found a strong and growing body addressing the experiences of both Black people in the United States and Black analysts at work. Thanks to ground prepared by pioneering Black analysts and intellectuals, multiracial clinicians and academics have opened up the psychoanalytic discourse to mixed-race voices.