ABSTRACT
I pondered whether to include this. In some ways it is not fair to include a critique of a paper that people have not seen. However, the subject of the invisibility of assumptions about race, class, sexuality, and culture is an important one. Where therapists take for granted that our professional assumptions of openness to diversity are to be imposed on clients as the only acceptable cultural assumptions, we are paradoxically losing our openness to diversity. Yet, otherwise, we are facing people whose life choices, while valued in their community, are uncomfortable for us to face. The act of defining those whose ideas run counter to ours as psychologically disturbed has a long and dishonourable history.
