Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy

Inga-Britt Krause, PhD, is a social and medical anthropologist. As a systemic psychotherapist she has worked for nearly twenty years in the NHS and has helped set up Specialist Services for Asian Communities in London. She is currently Training & Development Consultant in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

• Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Culture and the reflexive subject in systemic psychotherapy , The Intersubjective Space , Can we tolerate the relationships that race compels? , What would (or can) I know? Reflections on the conditions of knowing and understanding in intercultural therapy , Objectification, recognition, and the intersubjective continuum , Expanding Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy , With an exile’s eye: developing positions of cultural reflexivity (with a bit of help from feminism) , Cultural and family ethos in systemic therapy , Developments in Social GRRRAAACCEEESSS: visible–invisible and voiced–unvoiced 1 , Therapy as a Social Relationship , The personal and the professional: core beliefs and the construction of bridges across difference 1 , Hewing out hope from mountains of despair , Engaging within and across culture , Epilogue

'This book makes a crucial contribution by locating culture and race at the centre of all theory and practice in systemic psychotherapy. In doing so, it corrects the longstanding error of circumscribing culture and race to the attributes of minorities. Instead, it urges systemic practitioners to reflect about their own cultural and political stances in all their interactions with clients. Thoughtfully articulated contributions open rich new perspectives about the uses of reflexivity. Each chapter offers fascinating explorations of the topic along with considered explanations aimed at including culture and politics in the therapeutic and supervisory encounter. After reading this important book, it is impossible to continue to look at culture and race as belonging to clients only and to limit therapeutic inquiries to the culture and race of "others".'- Celia Jaes Falicov, PhD, Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA