The Invisibility of Whiteness in Clinical Practice: Case Commentary on “Becoming Visible: The Case of Colette”

My critical analysis of “Becoming Visible: The Case of Colette” is informed by Lee and Bhuyan’s (Soc Serv Rev 87:98–130, 2013) approach to analyze cross-cultural clinical practice. It examines “invisible” discursive moments that functionally reproduce sociocultural power dynamics of discrimination and oppression within the clinical encounter. I explored several threads of the therapy narrative to make visible privileged identities and ideologies, such as the normative performance of whiteness. In addition, my commentary demonstrates alternative narratives that resituate clinical practice to a more antidiscriminatory, antioppressive space through “de-centering” and making visible the discourse of whiteness (Lee and Bhuyan in Soc Serv Rev 87(1):98–130, 2013).