ABSTRACT

Racism in Psychology examines the history of racism in psychological theory, practice and institutions.

The book offers critical reviews by scholars and practising therapists from the US, Africa, Asia, Aoteoroa New Zealand, Australia and Europe on racism on the couch and in the wider socio-historical context. The authors present a mixed experience of the success of efforts to counter racism in theory, institutions and organisations and differing views on the possibility of institutional change. Chapters discuss the experience of therapists, anti-Semitism, inter-sectionality and how psychological praxis is part of a colonialist project.

The book will appeal to practising psychologists and counsellors, socially minded psychotherapists, social workers, sociologists and students of psychology, social studies and race relations.

part I|84 pages

Institutional racism

chapter Chapter 1|13 pages

Race, racism and the psy project

chapter Chapter 2|10 pages

Invisible anti-semitism in psychology

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

The global system of white supremacy within UK clinical psychology

An African psychology perspective

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

Re-embedding racism in psychology

Indigenising the curriculum in Australian psychology

chapter Chapter 5|12 pages

‘Something less terrible than the truth’

Oliver Twist and anti-semitism

chapter Chapter 6|16 pages

Racism and the rights movement

part II|107 pages

Race, theory and practice

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Racism and learning disabilities

chapter Chapter 8|10 pages

Judaism and the psy project

chapter Chapter 10|16 pages

Counselling the ‘other’

chapter Chapter 11|13 pages

I refuse to choose

Culture, trans-culturalism and therapy

chapter Chapter 12|16 pages

Echo to authenticity

Exploring identity in an age of privilege and supremacy

chapter Chapter 13|16 pages

Embracing the kaleidoscope

Talking about race and racism in clinical psychology