Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy

Mutual Perspectives

Inga-Britt Krause

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English

Karnac Books
31 December 2012

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series

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.

Edited by: Inga-Britt Krause
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781855757783
ISBN 10: 1855757788
Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 December 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Culture and the reflexive subject in systemic psychotherapy , The Intersubjective Space , Can we tolerate the relationships that race compels? , What would (or can) I know? Reflections on the conditions of knowing and understanding in intercultural therapy , Objectification, recognition, and the intersubjective continuum , Expanding Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy , With an exile’s eye: developing positions of cultural reflexivity (with a bit of help from feminism) , Cultural and family ethos in systemic therapy , Developments in Social GRRRAAACCEEESSS: visible–invisible and voiced–unvoiced 1 , Therapy as a Social Relationship , The personal and the professional: core beliefs and the construction of bridges across difference 1 , Hewing out hope from mountains of despair , Engaging within and across culture , Epilogue

Inga-Britt Krause, PhD, is a social and medical anthropologist. As a systemic psychotherapist she has worked for nearly twenty years in the NHS and has helped set up Specialist Services for Asian Communities in London. She is currently Training & Development Consultant in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Reviews for Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives

This book makes a crucial contribution by locating culture and race at the centre of all theory and practice in systemic psychotherapy. In doing so, it corrects the longstanding error of circumscribing culture and race to the attributes of minorities. Instead, it urges systemic practitioners to reflect about their own cultural and political stances in all their interactions with clients. Thoughtfully articulated contributions open rich new perspectives about the uses of reflexivity. Each chapter offers fascinating explorations of the topic along with considered explanations aimed at including culture and politics in the therapeutic and supervisory encounter. After reading this important book, it is impossible to continue to look at culture and race as belonging to clients only and to limit therapeutic inquiries to the culture and race of 'others'. Celia Jaes Falicov, PhD, Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA