Clinical Matters
For Black Mental and Social Health

Black Rage

"For a black man survival in America depends in large measure on the development of a "healthy" cultural paranoia. He must maintain a high degree of suspicion toward the motives of every white man and at the same time..." (p.178)"[endures] such pain and shock as to find life itself unbearable. For his own survival, then, he must develop a cultural paranoia in which every white man is a potential enemy unless proved otherwise and every social system is set against him..."
-- William Grier and Price Cobbs, Black Rage, Basic Books, 1968.
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The Successful Black Woman Syndrome [SBWS]

"There's a war going on, a war of hash words and animosity. Within this overall war is the explosive battle of the so-called "strong black woman" and the not so successful black man, the kind of man she's too often forced to settle for, or have nobody at all. But finding all too quickly, in too many cases, the loneliness she hadn't quite reckoned on, plus the social stigma of being alone or without a man, many sisters can't understand why, even when they lower their requirements in a man, they have picked up another problem. The sister with SBWS leaves no perk uncovered, expense accounts she pads to boost her reimbursements and cruises. She still has to learn to live with the reality that the higher she climbs, the more she personally achieves, the greater her chances of suffering acute consequences of what sociologist William Wilson called the dwindling marriageable black male pool. She may quickly discover that too many of our upper middle class brothers are inclined to exploit their scarcity; as if they were messiahs sent here to service the overabundant supply of strong black women."
-- Julia Hare, How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working).
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"Quite often the black woman is affluent, with two cars and a condominium but without a man who can satisfy, while the brother is broke with too many women. When we let the revolutionary initiative slip through out fingers after the Sixties, the brother got lost in the cracks. You used to could go through the black community and see a lot of working men and a lot of pretty women. Now you see a lot of working women and a lot of pretty men..”
-- Nathan and Julia Hare, The Endangered Black Family

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   To register for male/female therapy groups to start in late September at 1801 Bush Street in San Francisco, call 415-776-3882.

   For personal life coaching and motivation with Dr. Julia Hare, call 415-474-1707.

  To make appointments for individual psychotherapy and couples therapy in the clinical setting, or online therapy by telephone, with Dr. Nathan Hare, call 415-929-0204. Winner of this year’s Distinguished Psychologist Award (2006) from the Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists. The psychologists made specific reference to the work of The Black Think Tank. Both Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare have won a number of local and national awards in the past.