On Being Mockingbirds: Reply to Commentaries

In this reply to the generous and timely commentaries of my discussants, Steven Knoblauch, C.G. Lovett and Maria Saba, I make an attempt to address separately each of their thoughtful discussions concerning my unexpected encounter with social privilege and its impact on my clinical work. With much intellectual and emotional vitality, as well as associative poetic reverie - all three sources being extremely fecund - each discussant had something vital to offer in terms of my attempt to integrate personal/individual and social dynamics as having their own organization and meanings within the unconscious. To be sure, in that my original paper was a personal one of my journey of discovery of the need to work with my social privilege, all 3 discussants have a way of wrapping around my clinical work each with their own commitments, particular ways of thinking and passion as to what constitutes psychic growth and change.