It is necessary to deal with racial material in therapy as well as in
the real world outside of therapy. When this is not done, patients
terminate their treatment feeling that the therapist did not understand
them as patients and individuals. Black therapists have heard this often
from their black patients who have previously seen nonblack therapists. The
author does not propose that all therapy of black patients be done by black
therapists but that a definite concern for racial issues should prevail in
any therapeutic encounter to which a black patient brings problems related
to racial prejudice and/or discrimination.Abstract Teaser