ABSTRACT
The rapid growth of a concern regarding ‘cultural’ sensitivity and difference has been one of the most marked developments in psychotherapy in decades. The statistical evidence of the move of an interest in cultural issues from the margin to the centre of academic research in therapy is clear. The research has other potential blindsides. Half of its findings relate to the potential for negative outcomes of different kinds of therapy, with the other devoted to an analysis of the extent to which negative outcomes are likely to be reported by particular groups. The literature teems with other examples where contemporary critics seem unaware that that those that they are criticising were fully aware of the cultural aspects of the phenomena that they were exploring. The literature teems with other examples where contemporary critics seem unaware that that those that they are criticising were fully aware of the cultural aspects of the phenomena that they were exploring.
