The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy / Edition 1 available in Hardcover
The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1441975756
- ISBN-13:
- 9781441975751
- Pub. Date:
- 11/19/2010
- Publisher:
- Springer New York
- ISBN-10:
- 1441975756
- ISBN-13:
- 9781441975751
- Pub. Date:
- 11/19/2010
- Publisher:
- Springer New York
The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy / Edition 1
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Overview
The ambitious volume The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy probes these questions, compelling readers to look differently at their clients (and themselves), and offering a practical framework for more effective therapy. By tracing the racial “folk taxonomies” of eight cultures in the Americas and the Caribbean, the author elegantly defines race as a fluid construct, dependent on local social, political, and historical context for meaning but meaningless in the face of science. This innovative perspective informs the rest of the book, which addresses commonly held assumptions about problem behavior and the desire to change, and presents a social-science-based therapy model, applicable to a wide range of current approaches, that emphasizes both cultural patterns and client uniqueness. Among the highlights of the coverage:
• Common elements in therapy and healing across cultures.
• The psychological appeal of racial concepts despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
• Lessons psychology can learn from anthropology.
• Three types of therapeutic relationships, with strategies for working effectively in each.
• The phenomenon of discontinuous change in brief therapy.
• Solution-focused therapy from a cross-cultural perspective.
Thought-provoking reading forpsychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and other mental health professionals as well as graduate students in these fields, The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy affirms the individuality—and the interconnectedness—of every client.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781441975751 |
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Publisher: | Springer New York |
Publication date: | 11/19/2010 |
Edition description: | 2011 |
Pages: | 179 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Dr. Fish is the author of Culture and Therapy: An Integrative Approach, Placebo Therapy, and Dimensões da Empatia Terapêutica (Dimensions of Therapeutic Empathy, published in Portuguese); he is the editor of Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth, Drugs and Society: U. S. Public Policy, Is Our Drug Policy Effective? Are There Alternatives?, and How to Legalize Drugs; and he is the co-editor of Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing, Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy, and Psychology: Perspectives and Practice. He is the author of more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and other works; and he has served on the editorial boards of eight journals in the United States, Brazil, and India, and has been a consulting editor or invited reviewer for eight others.
Dr. Fish is a past Treasurer of the International Council of Psychologists, a past Chair of the Psychology Section of theNew York Academy of Sciences, a past President of the Division of Academic Psychology of the New York State Psychological Association, a past Member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Psychology, a former Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, and former Adjunct Coordinator of the Committee on Drugs and the Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, of the American Psychological Society, and of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. He has attained American Board of Professional Psychology Diplomate status in Clinical Psychology and in Family Psychology.
Dr. Fish is married to the anthropologist Dolores Newton, who studies the Krikati and related tribes of Brazilian Indians. He spent two years as a Visiting Professor in Brazil, during which time he lived for a month with the Krikati; and he has returned to Brazil numerous times. He speaks English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, and German.
Table of Contents
1 The Myth of Race 1
What Is Race? 1
Etics and Emics 2
Human Physical Variation 2
Folk Taxonomies 5
American "Races" 6
Brazilian "Tipos" 8
Ancestry and Physical Appearance in Other Folk Taxonomies 11
Haiti 14
Martinique 17
Puerto Rico 18
Ecuador 20
Jamaica 21
Cape Verde 23
The Myth of Race: Implications 25
Research 26
Immigrants 27
The Census 27
In Conclusion 28
2 The Spread of the Race Meme 29
The Meme Meme 29
Out of Africa 31
Out of Europe 34
The Race Meme in Twenty-First Century Europe 36
The Race Meme and the Selfplex 39
3 How Anthropology Can Help Psychology 41
Physics as an Inappropriate Model for Psychology 42
Ethnocentrism 46
Psychologists and Status 47
Culture 48
Etics and Emics 53
Psychologists' Belief in "Race" 55
In Conclusion 57
4 Divided Loyalties and the Responsibility of Social Scientists 59
Am I a Social Scientist First or an American First? 63
Am I a Social Scientist First or a Man or a Woman First? 63
Am I a Social Scientist First or White or Black First? 64
Am I a Social Scientist First or Jewish First? 65
Am I a Social Scientist First or an Anthropologist, Economist, Historian, Linguist, Political Scientist, Psychologist, or Sociologist First? 66
Am I a Social Scientist First or an Employee First? 67
5 The Conservative-Liberal Alliance Against Freedom 71
Four Ideological Types 72
Ideological Convergence in Support of the Drug War 72
Ideological Convergence in Support of Other Punitive Policies 74
Repression Has Become Pervasive 76
6 Sociocultural Theory and Therapy 79
7 Common Elements in Therapy and Healing Across Cultures 91
Process and Content 91
Does Psychology Have Any Content? 91
The Recapitulation Fallacy 92
Dealing with Unacceptable Difference 93
Ethnocentrism 94
Etics and Emics 94
Definitions and Applications 94
Issues in Making Generalizations 96
Six Commonalties in Search of a Theory 98
Industrialization and Globalization 98
Social Structure, Economics, and Power 101
Cultural Factors 102
The Interactional Perspective 102
Expectancy and Placebo 103
Learning and Cognition 105
8 Discontinuous Change 107
9 Does Problem Behavior Just Happen? 117
Overdetermination, Current Maintenance, or Natural Occurrence? 118
Psychoanalysis 118
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 118
Systems Movement 119
Solution-Focused Therapy 120
How Useful Is the Search for Causes? 121
Is Causation a Cultural Construction? 125
How Might Therapists Change? 125
10 Prevention, Solution-Focused Therapy, and the Illusion of Mental Disorders 127
11 Strategic Thoughts About Solution-Focused Therapy 133
12 A Cross-Cultural View of Solution-Focused Therapy 139
Historical Background 139
Theoretical Concepts 141
Solutions 141
Exceptions 142
Cooperation and the Therapeutic Relationship 143
Systems 147
Relevant Principles of Psychology 148
Clinical Techniques 150
Pretend/Do a Little Bit of the Miracle 150
Observe What Is Happening When 151
Formula First Session Task 151
Scaling Questions 151
A Case Example 152
Cross-Cultural Perspective 154
References 159
Subject Index 173