Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy

While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume responds to that pressing need. Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalytic scholars as well as multicultural and feminist psychologists, Tummala-Narra presents a theoretical framework that reflects the realities of clients' lives and addresses the complex sociocultural issues that influence their psychological health. Psychoanalytic theory proves to be particularly valuable in exploring unconscious processes, recurrent themes, and transference and counter-transference. In examining these questions, the author provides engaging case illustrations from her own clinical practice, as well as findings from her research with youth and adults of immigrant origin.

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• Rebuilding Shattered Lives Second Edition
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
• Social Justice in Clinical Practice: A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
• Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions
• Toward Psychologies of Liberation (Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences)
• Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
• Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Second Edition: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice (Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, & Gender in)
• The Practice of Research in Social Work
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