Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy

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.

Inga-Britt Krause

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