Race, culture and psychotherapy : critical perspectives in multicultural practice / edited by Roy Moodley & Stephen Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moodley, Roy.

Palmer, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Cross-cultural studies.

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis--Cross-cultural studies.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychiatry, Transcultural.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and culturalism, including discussion of the full range of issues, debates and controversies that are emerging in the field of multicultural psychotherapy.

Beginning with a general critique of race, culture and ethnicity, the book explores issues such as the notion of interiority and exteriority in psychotherapy, racism in the clinical room, race and countertransference conflicts, spirituality and traditional healing issues. Contributors from the United States, Britain and Canada draw on their professional experience to provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of the following subjects: Critical Perspectives in Race and Culture in Psychotherapy, Governing Race in the Transference, Racism, Ethnicity and Countertransference, Intersecting Gender, Race, Class and Sexual Orientation, Spirituality, Cultural Healing and Psychotherapy, Future Directions.

Race, Culture and Psychotherapy will be of interest not only to practicing psychotherapists, but also to students and researchers in the field of mental health and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of psychotherapy in a multicultural society.

Contents:

Part A Critical perspectives in race and culture in psychotherapy 9

1 Race, culture and other multiple constructions: an absent presence in psychotherapy / Roy Moodley, Stephen Palmer 11

2 Multiculturally crazy: diagnosis in Black / Rinaldo Walcott 27

3 Culturalism in multicultural psychotherapy / Farhad Dalal 36

4 Psychotherapy across the cultural divide / Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui 46

Part B Governing race in the transference 59

5 Racial transference reactions in psychoanalytic treatment: an update / Dorothy Evans Holmes 61

6 Transference and race: an intersubjective conceptualization / Kris Y. Yi 74

7 Interpretation of race in the transference: perspectives of similarity and difference in the patient/therapist dyad / Nadine M. Tang, Jacquelyn Gardner 89

8 Race in the room: issues in the dynamic psychotherapy of African-Americans / Deborah Y. Liggan, Jerald Kay 100

Part C Racism, ethnicity and countertransference 117

9 Racism and similarity: paranoid-schizoid structures revisited / Richard Tan 119

10 Black, white, Hispanic and both: issues in biracial identity and its effects in the transference-countertransference / Ruth M. Lijtmaer 130

11 Black and White thinking: a psychoanalyst reconsiders race / Neil Altman 139

12 Understanding unbearable anxieties: the retreat into racism / Narendra Keval 150

Part D Intersecting gender, race, class and sexuality 161

13 African-American lesbians and gay men in psychodynamic psychotherapies? / Beverly Greene 163

14 Multiple stigmas in psychotherapy with African-American women: afrocentric, feminist, and womanist perspectives / Carmen Braun Williams 177

15 Success neurosis: what race and social class have to do with it / Dorothy Evans Holmes 189

Part E Spirituality, cultural healing and psychotherapy 201

16 Healing and exorcism in psychoanalytic practice / Nathan Field 203

17 Cultural identity and spirituality in psychotherapy / Judith Mishne 217

18 Feminist spirituality, Mother Kali and cultural healing / Shumona Ray, Roy Moodley 228

Part F Future directions 239

19 A pluritheoretic approach: Tobie Nathan's ethnopsychoanalytic therapy / Ursula Streit 241

20 Cultural representations and interpretations of 'subjective distress' in ethnic minority patients / Roy Moodley 252

21 A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy / John Chambers Christopher, Adina J. Smith 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1583918493

1583918507

OCLC:

60705668

Publisher Number:

9781583918493

9781583918507