Dr. Gaztambide describes two cases in which a difference in race or skin tone between himself and the client had an important influence on the treatment.

Dr. Gaztambide is a therapist/clinician as well as an academic at the New School for Social Research, his work focusing on liberation psychology, critical race theory and decolonial perspectives on mental health.

Bio lifted from the New School for Social Research:
"Dr. Gaztambide’s scholarship centers on psychoanalysis and Liberation Psychology, race, class and culture in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Puerto Rican racial identity and colonialism, comparative approaches to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy integration, and the psychology of religion."

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