This paper addresses implications for psychological therapies and practices of recognizing
the varieties of ways 'race'and gender intersect and impact on therapeutic relationships. We …

The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic
psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced systemic psychotherapists …

The terms race, culture, ethnicity, multiculture, anti-racist and its related terms that act as
labelling descriptors of ethnic minority clients, or as a reference to theOther', or as linguistic …

Some White professionals have great difficulties in hearing the racist experiences of Black
people-probably because of their fear of hatred in the transference. This fear usually …

Since multiculturalism is not fully theorised it has created much confusion in counselling and
psychotherapy. It has been criticised for ignoring questions of power relations, and for …

There are compelling reasons to take seriously the question of cross-cultural psychotherapy.
With demographic shifts and movements of larger numbers of people into different cultural …

Abstract Service planners and providers of mental health services (including therapy and
counselling) claim that their services are being restructured so as to become more sensitive …

It is important to explore and interpret the dynamics of cultural differences and racism in
clinical work. Race and culture often play a significant role in any psychotherapeutic …

In this paper we draw on feminist and post-colonial theory to situate an account of a six-
month therapy between a black, Asian woman therapist and a woman patient of mixed …

The multiculturalist agenda seeks to compensate for some of the antipathies and confusions
arising in encounters when practitioner and patient are said to be from different cultures. It …