There are many insights and nuggets of value in this collection. Maurice Lipsedge reminds
us how badly psychiatry needs anthropology's insights. This book should contribute to the …

I am referred a patient in my private practice because of my expertise in war trauma. She has
been a princess in an Asian country which I have never seen, and with whose customs I am …

Psychotherapy and culture: Weaving inner and outer worlds Page 1 PSYCHOTHERAPY
AND CULTURE Weaving Inner and Outer Worlds 1174 117- Zack Eleftheriadou …

This book confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western
psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which the …

I have been asked so often about cultural therapy that I feel compelled to write a response.
Cultural therapy is a process of bringing one's own culture in its manifold forms to a level of …

Relational-cultural practice posits the centrality of mutual influence in any healing
relationship. Furthermore, the model emphasizes the impact of relational embeddedness …

How are we able to know another, particularly a person from another civilization? However
much we as analysts rely on different ways of knowing—ranging from sensitivity to the …

Scientific psychology is part of a cultural practice whose historical roots lie in Europe
(Gergen et al. 1996a). Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to take shape as an …

Argues that practical frameworks need to be developed that allow therapists to constructively
engage cultural issues. The primary purpose of the chapter is to make culture more …

A poster recently appeared on some streets in Ultra-Orthodox (Hareidi) neighborhoods of
Jerusalem calling on passers-by to beware 'The Danger of Psychologists!'In slightly smaller …