Race, Culture and Psychotherapy: Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice

by Moodley; Roy

• ISBN13: 9781583918500
• ISBN10: 1583918507
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317822134
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is multicultural psychotherapy? How do we integrate issues of gender, class and sexual orientation in multicultural psychotherapy? Race, Culture and Psychotherapyprovides 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 Psychotherapywill 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	x
Foreword	xv
Suman Fernando
Acknowledgements	xviii
Introduction	1	(8)
Roy Moodley
Stephen Palmer
PART A Critical perspectives in race and culture in psychotherapy	9	(50)
Race, culture and other multiple constructions: an absent presence in psychotherapy	11	(16)
Roy Moodley
Stephen Palmer
Multiculturally crazy: diagnosis in Black	27	(9)
Rinaldo Walcott
Culturalism in multicultural psychotherapy	36	(10)
Farhad Dalal
Psychotherapy across the cultural divide	46	(13)
Dinesh Bhugra
Kamaldeep Bhui
PART B Governing race in the transference	59	(58)
Racial transference reactions in psychoanalytic treatment: an update	61	(13)
Dorothy Evans Holmes
Transference and race: an intersubjective conceptualization	74	(15)
Kris Y. Yi
Interpretation of race in the transference: perspectives of similarity and difference in the patient/therapist dyad	89	(11)
Nadine M. Tang
Jacquelyn Gardner
Race in the room: issues in the dynamic psychotherapy of African-Americans	100	(17)
Deborah Y. Liggan
Jerald Kay
PART C Racism, ethnicity and countertransference	117	(44)
Racism and similarity: paranoid-schizoid structures revisited	119	(11)
Richard Tan
Black, white, Hispanic and both: issues in biracial identity and its effects in the transference-countertransference	130	(9)
Ruth M. Lijtmaer
Black and White thinking: a psychoanalyst reconsiders race	139	(11)
Neil Altman
Understanding unbearable anxieties: the retreat into racism	150	(11)
Narendra Keval
PART D Intersecting gender, race, class and sexuality	161	(40)
African-American lesbians and gay men in psychodynamic psychotherapies?	163	(14)
Beverly Greene
Multiple stigmas in psychotherapy with African-American women: afrocentric, feminist, and womanist perspectives	177	(12)
Carmen Braun Williams
Success neurosis: what race and social class have to do with it	189	(12)
Dorothy Evans Holmes
PART E Spirituality, cultural healing and psychotherapy	201	(38)
Healing and exorcism in psychoanalytic practice	203	(14)
Nathan Field
Cultural identity and spirituality in psychotherapy	217	(11)
Judith Mishne
Feminist spirituality, Mother Kali and cultural healing	228	(11)
Shumona Ray
Roy Moodley
PART F Future directions	239	(42)
A pluritheoretic approach: Tobie Nathan's ethnopsychoanalytic therapy	241	(11)
Ursula Streit
Cultural representations and interpretations of `subjective distress' in ethnic minority patients	252	(13)
Roy Moodley
A hermeneutic approach to culture and psychotherapy	265	(16)
John Chambers Christopher
Adina J. Smith
Postscript	281	(1)
Index	282