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Title:
Cultural psychotherapy : working with culture in the clinical encounter
Author:
Seeley, Karen M.
ISBN:
9780765702241
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, c2000.
Physical Description:
xi, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Taking Culture into Account -- Introduction: Culture and the Clinic. The Culture of Theory. Psychotherapy and Anthropology -- From The Patient's Point of View -- Introduction: The Patient and the Clinical Encounter. Negation: Prakesh. Seduction: Jun. Confrontation: Maria. Compartmentalization: Meena. Normalization: Yukiko. Reconstruction: Rosa -- Conclusion. Constructing a Cultural Psychotherapy.
Abstract:
"This book provides therapists with a practical guide for treating patients from other cultures. Based on extensive clinical work with patients from many ethnic backgrounds, Dr. Karen M. Seeley shares insights on the problems of using a second language, recognizing cultural material presented in sessions, and making specific changes in clinical practice to accommodate cultural differences. New renderings of such important psychotherapeutic concepts as presenting problems, transference, and resistance are introduced. The need for a cultural approach to clinical practice is further supported by interviews conducted with foreign patients who were treated by American psychotherapists."--Jacket.
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