ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author highlights how majority therapists can develop a way of thinking in which they can show that they are being influenced by the client/family in a dialogic process quite as much as the other way round. The author defines cultural reflexivity in psychotherapy as an attention to the processes through which therapists negotiate cultural identities, through which they bring forth cultural meanings and the ways in which they engage with aspects of "otherness" and difference. In exploring gender and culture, it seems to the author there are two intersections. First, there is the interplay between what therapists might call "essentializing" and "constructionist" discourses. Second, feminist theory has the capacity to deconstruct power and, by lying bare the operation of power practices, to amplify the voices of those who are "othered" and to reverse the gaze to those doing the "othering".
