Intercultural Therapy

Challenges, Insights and Developments

Baffour Ababio, Roland Littlewood, Baffour Ababio, Roland Littlewood

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781138625600
• eBook ISBN: 9780429861741
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments examines the impact of the work of the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre in North London, which focused on providing free, psychodynamic therapy.

Set up by Jafar Kareem, the centre was the first psychotherapy service with the specific task of offering psychodynamic psychotherapy to Britain's Black and ethnic minority population. The editors of this book have invited a number of Nafsiyat therapists and colleagues to give their view on what has changed, or not changed, in regard to the integration of intercultural issues into mainstream therapy.

Intercultural Therapy will be of interest to all psychotherapists working in multicultural practices, as well as practitioners and social workers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: process and development in intercultural psychotherapy
• 1. Intercultural therapy and neoliberalism
• 2. Who’s being assessed? Post-modernism and intercultural therapy assessments: a synergetic process
• 3. Not yet at home: an exploration of aural and verbal passing amongst African migrants in Britain
• 4. Group psychotherapy with Turkish-speaking women at Nafsiyat: migration, gender and ethnic difference as catalysts to growth in the psychodynamic group
• 5. Finding our voice across the Black/white divide: race issues in therapy
• 6. Racism in the room: internal working model of the ‘non-white’ introject
• 7. Intercultural psychotherapy, intracultural psychotherapy, or just good psychotherapy?
• 8. Postcolonialism and countertransference in two cases of the sexual abuse of women by doctors
• 9. Inferiorisation: approaching a stigmatising reality in therapy
• 10. Face to face: psychotherapy in black and white
• 11. Embodied intercultural ground
• 12. Intercultural psychoanalytic psychotherapy and generationally transmitted trauma
• 13. Beyond the famil(y)ar: the construct of the self outside the dyad – intercultural therapy as an opportunity to explore the social self
• 14. The challenge of racism in clinical supervision
• Index