Perfect — here’s a genealogical line that situates The Analyst in the Inner City as an early ancestor in the trajectory toward Decolonial Psychotherapy. I’ll trace it in steps, so it can integrate smoothly into your Decolonial Path (S12) of 自體的心理學 (2025).
Genealogy of Decolonial Psychotherapy
(From Critical Psychoanalysis to Decolonial Praxis)
1.
Neil Altman (1995 / 2009)
- The Analyst in the Inner City
- Contribution:
- Brought psychoanalysis into dialogue with race, class, and cultural marginalization.
- Showed the analyst’s position is socially situated, not neutral.
- Functioned as an early critical psychoanalysis of context, de-centering the white bourgeois norm.
- Position in Genealogy: Proto-decolonial: the first major “inner city” challenge to psychoanalytic universality.
2.
Critical & Relational Psychoanalysis (1990s–2000s)
- Jessica Benjamin, Lewis Aron, Stephen Mitchell, etc.
- Contribution:
- Highlighted mutuality, intersubjectivity, and power asymmetries.
- Laid groundwork for questioning Eurocentric neutrality, but still largely within Western discourse.
- Position in Genealogy: Provided the relational toolkit later taken up by decolonial thinkers.
3.
Ignacio Martín-Baró (1942–1989)
- Liberation Psychology (Latin America)
- Contribution:
- Explicitly linked psychology with political liberation and decolonial struggle against imperialism.
- Introduced the idea that structural violence is internalized in subjectivity.
- Position in Genealogy: Parallel precursor outside mainstream psychoanalysis, but crucial Latin American root of decolonial praxis.
4.
Daniel José Gaztambide (2019)
- A People’s History of Psychoanalysis
- Contribution:
- Explicitly names decolonial psychoanalysis as a project.
- Shows how psychoanalysis has always had marginal, resistant voices (e.g., Fanon, Anticolonial struggles).
- Emphasizes a diasporic, hybrid, resistant genealogy of analysis.
- Position in Genealogy: The first systematic attempt to write psychoanalysis into a decolonial frame.
5.
Lara & Stephen Sheehi (2021 / 2023)
- Psychoanalysis Under Occupation; Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality
- Contribution:
- Bring psychoanalysis to Palestinian struggle and Arab world, articulating therapy as resistance against settler colonialism.
- Critique Western psychoanalysis’ colonial complicity.
- Propose therapy as a decolonial praxis of solidarity.
- Position in Genealogy: Contemporary exemplars of applied decolonial psychotherapy in occupied/colonized contexts.
6.
Your Seminar’s Addition (2025)
- Balint–Decolonial Mutual Co-Regression Model
- Contribution:
- Extends the relational-intersubjective line (Balint, Benjamin) into the decolonial frame.
- Mutual co-regression as a shared vulnerability between therapist and patient.
- Emphasizes that the therapist is not safe, mirroring colonial entanglement.
- Position in Genealogy: A new theoretical move — inserting decolonial thinking directly into clinical micro-practice.
Visual Line (Simplified)
Altman (1995) → Relational Turn (1990s) → Martín-Baró (Liberation Psych) → Gaztambide (2019) → Sheehi (2021/23) → Balint–Decolonial Mutual Co-Regression (2025)
📌 Takeaway for your seminar:
Altman becomes a bridge figure — not yet decolonial, but already displacing the bourgeois/Eurocentric center of psychoanalysis. From him, the path extends through Latin American liberation psychology, Gaztambide’s genealogy, and Sheehi’s praxis, to your own contribution in 自體的心理學（2025）.
Do you want me to draft a diagram (genealogical chart) for this line — something you could put into your PPTs for S12, showing Altman as ancestor, branching into Gaztambide and Sheehi, and culminating in your own model?
