Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives

by Inga-Britt Krause (Editor)

The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced systemic psychotherapists offer their reflections and thoughts on the issues of race, culture, and ethnicity in the therapeutic relationship. The aim is to develop this area of systemic practice, to place culture squarely at the centre of all systemic psychotherapy practice as a model for all psychotherapy practice, to encourage both trainees and experienced systemic psychotherapists to pay attention to race, culture, and ethnicity as central issues in their own and their clients' identities, and to inform researchers who use qualitative research techniques such as ethnography.This book moves the issues of culture, race and equity into the centre of psychotherapeutic practice, including that which involves therapeutic encounters across culture, racial and ethnic divides. It develops an approach to cultural transference and demonstrates that thinking about culture, race and ethnicity does not belong at the margin.

Genres: Psychology

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2011

Reviews

[Ally · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really helped me to think about culture from multiple perspectives - I really appreciated the opportunity to explore the limits of coming from a position of 'not knowing' and what it might mean to position ourselves as 'other' rather than those we are working with. I particularly enjoyed Barry Mason's chapter and John Burnham's chapter on the social GGRAAACCEESSS and visible/invisible and voiced/unvoiced differences. I think this is definitely a book I'll come back to to help inform my practice. I do think some background understanding of systemic theory is needed, although the concepts are explained well throughout the book, but I perhaps would not recommend this book for people who haven't done any reading around systemic theory previously.