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Applying psychoanalysis to community mediation: An alternative to racist criminalization by the courts

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The author, a racial justice activist, psychoanalyst, and community mediator, applies intersubjective systems theory and a transformative mediation approach to a felony case in a criminal court mediation. She assesses the benefits and limitations of the two relational models that inform her work. Racial self-awareness is a critical feature for the author, a white mediator, working with families entangled in the racially biased criminal justice system.

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Schmidt, C. Applying psychoanalysis to community mediation: An alternative to racist criminalization by the courts. Psychoanal Cult Soc 23, 437–454 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0082-3

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