1st Edition
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy
For the psychotherapist/psychological therapist, notions of diversity and inclusion, such as intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies, are both increasingly important, and yet increasingly difficult. This book explores these developments and raises the important questions: Are these difficulties to do with the biases of the person who is the psychotherapist, and/or could it also sometimes have to do with how diversity, inclusion and related terms are constructed?
Crucially, clients may now find it difficult to find a therapist who is able to explore with them their concerns around diversity and inclusion which can be complicated and may take time to consider. This book presents cutting-edge research to enable explorations of our changing world which is so different to the one we were born into (let alone our, often older, own psychotherapists and supervisors).
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology including Psychotherapy and Counselling. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Introduction—Diversity, inclusion and culture wars: Everything a psychotherapist should need to know about ‘intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies’ but is too afraid to ask?
Del Loewenthal
1. Queer minds, Queer needs
Erene Hadjiioannou and Julian-Pascal Saadi
2. Therapy and diversity – an (un)therapeutic relationship?
James M. Sedgwick
3. A psychotherapist’s lived experience in-session with an asylum seeker and translator: An autoethnographic case study
Nicole Chew-Helbig
4. Being seen: The lived experience of psychodynamic practitioners disclosing or not disclosing sight impairment
Laura Evers
5. How might psychotherapy improve its service to disabled people and people with physical impairment?
Sally Parsloe
6. Towards an integrative model of multicultural responsiveness
Daryl Mahon
7. Deconstructing humanitarian compassion: Ψ as method
Artemis Christinaki
8. Diversity and aggression: A reflection on sensual meanings and an ameliorative law after Freud and Lacan
Tony McSherry
9. An exploration of lesbian and gay people’s experiences of religion, and their implications for psychotherapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Peter Meades
10. Contemporary psychotherapy: Evolution in our modern time
Silva Neves
11. Diversity in counselling & psychotherapy
Gillian Proctor
Biography
Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton and is Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk
