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Dialogues on Difference Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship

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ISBN-10: 1591474515

ISBN-13: 9781591474517

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: J. Christopher Muran

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Many adherents to the various psychotherapeutic traditions agree that the therapeutic relationship is actively shaped by the personal identities and needs of patient and therapist. Invariably, during the course of psychotherapy, therapist and patient engage in an "intersubjective negotiation" based on their respective individualities. In this series of creative scholarly essays arranged in eight "dialogues," leading clinicians wrestle with questions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality as they apply to the therapeutic relationship. Each dialogue begins with an original chapter contribution by a clinician that includes a detailed discussion of the psychotherapeutic process, especially…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Publication date: 9/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 313
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Jeremy D. Safran, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where he was formerly Director of Clinical Psychology. He is also Senior Research Scientist at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center. He is the author ofWidening the Scope of Cognitive Therapy, coauthor ofEmotion in PsychotherapyandInterpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy, and coeditor ofEmotion, Psychotherapy, and ChangeandThe Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy. He is an advisory editor forPsychotherapy Research,Journal of Clinical Psychology,Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, and several other journals, and maintains a private practice in New York City. J. Christopher Muran, PhD, is…    

Positioning the editor : an introduction to difference and dialogue
Toward the acceptance of human similarity and difference
Commentary : some reflections on racism and psychology
Commentary : Freud, Jung, or Fanon? : the racial other on the couch
Reply : multiple perspectives on prejudice
How difference makes a difference
Commentary : tapping the multiplicity of self-other relationships
Commentary : engaging the plurality of being
Reply : voices from the margins - the multiple identities of client, therapist, and theories
Homosexuality and its vicissitudes
Commentary : homosexuality - toward affirmative therapy
Commentary : holding the tension between constructionist and deconstructionist perspectives
Reply : Parler Foucault Sans Le Savoir
Gender, race, and invisibility in psychotherapy with African American men
Commentary : making invisibility visible - probing the interface between race and gender
Commentary : not either, but both - race and gender in psychotherapy with African American men
Reply : truth in advertising - therapeutic competence means undoing racism and sexism
Bridging the gap
Commentary : the need to explicate culturally competent approaches with Latino clients
Commentary : on describing the Latino experience
Reply : are we bridging the gap yet? : a work in progress
The inscrutable Doctor Wu
Commentary : mending the twain - eastern inscrutability and therapeutic neutrality
Commentary : cultural and acculturative inscrutability of Asian American clients
Reply : Kant, Confucius, and Doctor Wu - integration or coexistence?
History, custom, and the Twin Towers : challenges in adapting psychotherapy to Middle Eastern culture in the United States
Commentary : negotiating cultural difference and the therapeutic alliance
Commentary : a strengths-based approach to psychotherapy with Middle Eastern people
Reply : parallel journeys - the anxiety of foreignness
A relational turn on thick description
Commentary : language, self, and diversity
Commentary : on being in the thick of it
Reply : the power of/in language