Book description
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.
