ABSTRACT

Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments examines the impact of the work of the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre in North London, which focused on providing free, psychodynamic therapy.

Set up by Jafar Kareem, the centre was the first psychotherapy service with the specific task of offering psychodynamic psychotherapy to Britain’s Black and ethnic minority population. The editors of this book have invited a number of Nafsiyat therapists and colleagues to give their view on what has changed, or not changed, in regard to the integration of intercultural issues into mainstream therapy.

Intercultural Therapy will be of interest to all psychotherapists working in multicultural practices, as well as practitioners and social workers.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

1Process and development in intercultural psychotherapy

chapter 2|16 pages

Who’s being assessed?

Post-modernism and intercultural therapy assessments: a synergetic process

chapter 3|20 pages

Not yet at home

An exploration of aural and verbal passing amongst African migrants in Britain

chapter 4|11 pages

Group psychotherapy with Turkish-speaking women at Nafsiyat

Migration, gender and ethnic difference as catalysts to growth in the psychodynamic group

chapter 5|12 pages

Finding our voice across the Black/white divide

Race issues in therapy

chapter 6|11 pages

Racism in the room

Internal working model of the ‘non-white’ introject

chapter 9|8 pages

Inferiorisation

Approaching a stigmatising reality in therapy

chapter 10|7 pages

Face to face

Psychotherapy in black and white

chapter 13|15 pages

Beyond the famil(y)ar: the construct of the self outside the dyad

Intercultural therapy as an opportunity to explore the social self