ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the experience of ‘inferiorisation’, often present in clinical work with ethnic minorities and potentially determined by an internalised socio-political subjugation, in order to enhance our empathic engagement in understanding the minority inner and outer experience. It explores the impact of the systematic and repeated pattern of inferiorisation with its unconscious constellations and psychological derivatives, including dissociation, emotional dysregulation, retraumatisation, regression, anger, shame and betrayal. The author draws from the clinical experience gained with Nafsiyat’s individual clients and families.
