This chapter focuses on the breach of communitas, which informs taboos/customs and
disturbances of social configurations. The concept of culture provides a methodological and …

This chapter derives from six months' participation in clinical group supervision as a
participating psychotherapeutic practitioner. These weekly sessions comprised three trainee …

Worldwide, increases in population growth and mobility have resulted in a society that is
increasingly multicultural in nature. Forced and voluntary migration, economic globalization …

As our understanding of the human mind, idioms of human distress and mental health has
improved, it has become apparent that culture has an impact on all aspects of our lives …

Abstract The Working with Culture seminar is offered as a course during the month long
Annual McGill Summer Program for Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, attended by local …

This paper considers the dilemmas and questions raised in cross-cultural work when it is
supposed that patients have been damaged by their culture of origin. First, the legitimacy of …

The concept of 'culture'is gaining in significance within the discourse of counselling and
psychotherapy, as a means of making sense of the ways in which shared identities and …

Cultural Complexes structure emotional experience... tend to be repetitive, autonomous,
resist consciousness and collect experience that confirms their historical point of view …

While culture is a widely accepted issue in therapy, current approaches are criticised as unfit
for purpose in a postmodern, postcolonial world characterised by large scale migration …

The tension between universalism and relativism underpins all work and research in
anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, and philosophy and derives from the …