1st Edition
Intercultural Therapy Challenges, Insights and Developments
Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments examines the impact of the work of the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre in North London, which focused on providing free, psychodynamic therapy.
Set up by Jafar Kareem, the centre was the first psychotherapy service with the specific task of offering psychodynamic psychotherapy to Britain’s Black and ethnic minority population. The editors of this book have invited a number of Nafsiyat therapists and colleagues to give their view on what has changed, or not changed, in regard to the integration of intercultural issues into mainstream therapy.
Intercultural Therapy will be of interest to all psychotherapists working in multicultural practices, as well as practitioners and social workers.
Introduction: process and development in intercultural psychotherapy
Roland Littlewood and Baffour Ababio
1 Intercultural therapy and neoliberalism
Inga-Britt Krause
2 Who’s being assessed? Post modernism and intercultural therapy assessments: a synergetic processh.
Oye Agoro
3 Not yet at home: an exploration of aural and verbal passing amongst African migrants in Britain
Baffour Ababio
4 Group psychotherapy with Turkish-speaking women at Nafsiyat: migration, gender and ethnic differences as catalysts to growth in the psychodynamic group
Dilek Güngör
5 Finding our voice across the Black/white divide: race issues in therapy
Eugene Ellis
6 Racism in the room: internal working model of the 'non-white' introject
Deri Hughes
7 Intercultural psychotherapy, intracultural psychotherapy, or just good psychotherapy?
Peter Cockersell
8 Postcolonialism and countertransference in two cases of the sexual abuse of women by doctors
Roland Littlewood
9 Inferiorisation: approaching a stigmatising reality in therapy
Antony Sigalas
10 Face to face: psychotherapy in black and white
Charles Brown
11 Embodied intercultural ground
Carmen Joanne Ablack
12 Intercultural psychoanalytic psychotherapy and generationally transmitted trauma
Lennox K. Thomas
13 Beyond the famil(y)ar: the construct of the self outside the dyad – intercultural therapy as an opportunity to explore the social self
Francesca Zanatta
14 The challenge of racism in clinical supervision
Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
Biography
Baffour Ababio is a psychoanalytic intercultural psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice and at the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, where he has also worked as head of clinical services.
Roland Littlewood was associated with Jafar Kareem at the start of Nafsiyat and retired a few years ago as professor of psychiatry and anthropology at University College London, where he is now a research fellow.
