Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Intersections of Privilege and Otherness presents an in-depth understanding of the role of privilege, and of the unconscious experience of privilege and difference within the world of counselling and psychotherapy.

Dr Dwight Turner is Senior Lecturer within the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, a psychotherapist and supervisor in Private Practice both online and in London, and a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in London.

Chapter 1: Why another book on Difference?; Introduction; My own experiences with Privilege; Cultural Context; Importance to Counselling and Psychotherapy; The Psychotherapy of Oppression; Methodological Underpinnings; Chapter 2: Intersectional Privilege and the Other; Defining Intersectionality; Defining Privilege; The Gift of Privilege; Privilege and Supremacy; The Intersectional Marriage of Privilege and Otherness; Chapter 3: Hatred, Shame, and the Unconscious Other; Hatred and the Other; Shame and the Other; Othering and Narcissism; Superiority, Hatred and Shame in Therapy; Chapter 4: Death of the Other; Privilege and Death; Killing the Other; Theorising Death and Privilege in Psychotherapy; Intersectional Identity and Death; Chapter 5: Individuation, Privilege and Otherness; Psychological Supremacy versus Individuation; Case Presentation; Fear and Death; The Acculturated Psyche; Unconscious' Truth to Power; Union of the Opposites; Rise of the Ethical Self; Chapter 6: Afterword