Race, Culture and Psychotherapy

Roy Moodley Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology at the Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.Stephen Palmer Ph.D. is Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University, London and Director of the Centre for Stress Management, England.

• Moodley, Palmer Introduction.Part I:Critical Perspectives in Race and Culture in Psychotherapy. Moodley, Palmer, Race, Culture and the Other Multiple Configurations: An Absent Presence in Psychotherapy. Walcott, Multiculturalism Madness: Delusions, Fantasies and Limitations in the Clinical Room. Dalal Culturalism in Multicultural Psychotherapy.Bhugra, Bhui Psychotherapy Across the Cultural Divide.Part II: Governing Race in the Transference. Holmes, Racial Transference Reactions in Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Update. Yi, Transference and Race: An Intersubjective Conceptualisation. Tang, Gardner Interpretation of Race in the Transference: Perspectives of Similarity and Difference in the Patient/Therapist Dyad. Liggan, Kay, Race in the Room: Issues in the Dynamic Psychotherapy of African-Americans.Part III: Racism, Ethnicity and Countertransference. Tan, Racism and Similarity: Paranoid-Schizoid Structure Revisited.Lijtmaer, Black, White, Hispanic and Both: Issues in Bi-racial Identity and its Effects in the Transference-Contertransference. Altman, Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race.Keval, Defensive and Unbearable Anxieties: Understanding the Retreat into Racism.Part IV: Intersecting Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality. Green African American Lesbians and Gay Men in Psychodynamic Psychotherapies? Williams, Feminism, Afrocentrism and African-American Women: Implications for Therapy. HolmesSuccess Neurosis: What Race and Social Class Have to Do With It.Part V: Spirituality, Cultural Healing and Psychotherapy. Field Healing and Exorcism in Psychoanalytic Practice. MishneCultural Identity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy. Ray, Moodley Feminist Spirituality, Mother Kali and Cultural Healing.Part VI: Future Directions. Streit A Pluritheoretic Approach: Tobie Nathan’s Ethnopsychoanalytic Therapy.MoodleyCultural Representations and Interpretations of 'Psychological Distress' in Ethnic Minority Patients. Chambers, C. Smith, A.J. Smith,Hermeneutic Approach to Culture and Psychotherapy.

"Race, Culture and Psychotherapy is a thought-provoking book that will be of interest to practicing counsellors and psychotherapists as well as students and researchers in the field of mental health and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of psychotherapy in a multicultural society." - Fevronia Christodoulidi, Manchester University, UK, from British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 35(2) May 2007