{"title":"Psychotherapy and indigenous people in the Kingdom of Denmark","authors":"N. Bagge, Peter Berliner","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46831471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Correspondence Gillian Proctor, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Baines Wing, 13 Beech Terrace, Leeds LS29DA, UK. Email: g.m.proctor@leeds.ac.uk Abstract This article is co‐written by a counselling and psychotherapy tutor and two students at a university in the North of England. It is both an idea for and a reflection on how the counselling and psychotherapy professions might progress and deepen the way in which race and racism are taught and explored in training. This paper also serves as a follow‐ up to the article ‘Confronting racism in counselling and therapy training—three experiences of a seminar on racism and whiteness’ in which the authors explore their experiences of delivering and participating in the session and the growth, and learning that came from it. The intention behind trying to do this session differently was to move beyond surface level, cognitive ‘sticking plaster’ approaches to discussing race and racism in society and in the therapy room, and to employ a much more experiential and challenging approach. It was hoped that this would encourage students to reflect on their own identities and their own responses to Black people openly discussing experiences of racism, particularly given it was a majority white cohort. The authors offer their own reflections in the article that was written post‐session.
{"title":"Beyond the ‘sticking plaster’? Meaningful teaching and learning about race and racism in counselling and psychotherapy training","authors":"G. Proctor, Liz Smith, Dania Akondo","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1580","url":null,"abstract":"Correspondence Gillian Proctor, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Baines Wing, 13 Beech Terrace, Leeds LS29DA, UK. Email: g.m.proctor@leeds.ac.uk Abstract This article is co‐written by a counselling and psychotherapy tutor and two students at a university in the North of England. It is both an idea for and a reflection on how the counselling and psychotherapy professions might progress and deepen the way in which race and racism are taught and explored in training. This paper also serves as a follow‐ up to the article ‘Confronting racism in counselling and therapy training—three experiences of a seminar on racism and whiteness’ in which the authors explore their experiences of delivering and participating in the session and the growth, and learning that came from it. The intention behind trying to do this session differently was to move beyond surface level, cognitive ‘sticking plaster’ approaches to discussing race and racism in society and in the therapy room, and to employ a much more experiential and challenging approach. It was hoped that this would encourage students to reflect on their own identities and their own responses to Black people openly discussing experiences of racism, particularly given it was a majority white cohort. The authors offer their own reflections in the article that was written post‐session.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47458803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, a counselling and psychotherapy tutor and two therapists who have recently completed their training, one student of colour and one white, engage in a reflective, experiential process following a taught session on race and whiteness in the therapy room. The authors explore their own processes within and since the session in a reflexive, conversational format, candidly self ‐ examining and confronting their experiences, including the more difficult ones. Through this process, the authors discuss the political implications and shortcomings of such training, both within this specific training context and the profession as a whole. The authors contend that the counselling and psychotherapy professions and the training provided to enter them are increasingly being challenged in contemporary society to look beyond traditional assumptions about the superi-ority of white, middle class, and Eurocentric values and norms in the curriculum and teaching. They conclude by offering both context ‐ specific and general recommendations for training courses and practitioners to address the shortcomings in provision.
{"title":"Confronting racism in counselling and therapy training—Three experiences of a seminar on racism and whiteness","authors":"Liz Smith, G. Proctor, Dania Akondo","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1579","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a counselling and psychotherapy tutor and two therapists who have recently completed their training, one student of colour and one white, engage in a reflective, experiential process following a taught session on race and whiteness in the therapy room. The authors explore their own processes within and since the session in a reflexive, conversational format, candidly self ‐ examining and confronting their experiences, including the more difficult ones. Through this process, the authors discuss the political implications and shortcomings of such training, both within this specific training context and the profession as a whole. The authors contend that the counselling and psychotherapy professions and the training provided to enter them are increasingly being challenged in contemporary society to look beyond traditional assumptions about the superi-ority of white, middle class, and Eurocentric values and norms in the curriculum and teaching. They conclude by offering both context ‐ specific and general recommendations for training courses and practitioners to address the shortcomings in provision.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42995738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this re exive case‐study, “Billie”, an integrative psycho- therapist, and her therapist, Nicola, offer a coproduced account of Billie's lived experience of dissociative identity. Challenging the medicalised “fragmentation towards inte- gration” discourse, Billie, her parts, and Nicola coproduce a person‐centred “exclusion towards inclusion” approach. The authors propose the term “plural identity”, situating the experience less as a disorder, and more as a way of being human. They present verbatim extracts of their therapeutic work, with parallel commentary and post- session discussion, to illustrate their developing, person‐ centred and coproduced approach towards intrapsychic inclusion. They conclude that inclusion consists in uncon- ditionally valuing three prevailing constituents in plural identity: the individual parts of self; the ecological system; and the differentiation between parts. This can result in growth for all parts, including parts that initially appear counter to growth, and allows the lived experience of the client to be honoured, not pathologised.
{"title":"‘And we are a human being’: Coproduced reflections on person‐centred psychotherapy in plural and dissociative identity","authors":"Nicola Blunden, Billie","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1578","url":null,"abstract":"In this re exive case‐study, “Billie”, an integrative psycho- therapist, and her therapist, Nicola, offer a coproduced account of Billie's lived experience of dissociative identity. Challenging the medicalised “fragmentation towards inte- gration” discourse, Billie, her parts, and Nicola coproduce a person‐centred “exclusion towards inclusion” approach. The authors propose the term “plural identity”, situating the experience less as a disorder, and more as a way of being human. They present verbatim extracts of their therapeutic work, with parallel commentary and post- session discussion, to illustrate their developing, person‐ centred and coproduced approach towards intrapsychic inclusion. They conclude that inclusion consists in uncon- ditionally valuing three prevailing constituents in plural identity: the individual parts of self; the ecological system; and the differentiation between parts. This can result in growth for all parts, including parts that initially appear counter to growth, and allows the lived experience of the client to be honoured, not pathologised.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in‐person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The critique is informed by concerns about the security of online therapeutic practice; informed by, but not restricted to, legislation and practice in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it includes cultural perspectives regarding healthcare provision, specifically with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and, more broadly, with regard to disadvantaged and vulnerable clients and communities throughout the world. The article offers a framework that accounts for the challenge of making practical, culturally appropriate, and therapeutic decisions about the security and accessibility of online therapeutic practice.
{"title":"The challenge of security and accessibility: Critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID‐19","authors":"Julia Ioane, C. Knibbs, Keith Tudor","doi":"10.1002/ppi.1581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1581","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in‐person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The critique is informed by concerns about the security of online therapeutic practice; informed by, but not restricted to, legislation and practice in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it includes cultural perspectives regarding healthcare provision, specifically with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and, more broadly, with regard to disadvantaged and vulnerable clients and communities throughout the world. The article offers a framework that accounts for the challenge of making practical, culturally appropriate, and therapeutic decisions about the security and accessibility of online therapeutic practice.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ppi.1581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49231019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locked down or locked up: 131 Days in immigration detention","authors":"Marie‐Thérèse Talensby","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43351197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Reading the report ‘The Digital Future of Mental Healthcare and its Workforce’ by the National Health Service (NHS) from the United Kingdom makes for a strange experience. Most centrally, it is utterly perplexing that no single argument is mounted in the report to wave aside accusations that it depicts a totalitarian world governed by a digipsy‐complex. As it seems to presage the COVID crisis in its assertion that digital mental health care will and should be the future, this paper takes the pandemic as its point of departure. However, it does not set out not from the apparent digitalisation of psy‐care under COVID‐conditions, but rather, from the psychologisation of the COVID crisis itself; that is, individualising and pathologising the discontents and socio‐subjective sufferings under COVID. The aim is to tackle from here the intertwining of the psychological and the digital, of psychologisation and digitalisation. This article engages in a close ‘symptomatic reading’ of the report and makes two points. The first concerns how digitalisation as such is closely connected to the neurobiologisation of subjectivity. The second point is about how digitalisation is also closely connected to the commodification of all things subjective and social. After discussing and interrelating these two issues, the article explores what a critical response could be, and what it should not be.
{"title":"A critique of digital mental health via assessing the psychodigitalisation of the COVID‐19 crisis","authors":"J. D. de Vos","doi":"10.1002/ppi.1582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1582","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Reading the report ‘The Digital Future of Mental Healthcare and its Workforce’ by the National Health Service (NHS) from the United Kingdom makes for a strange experience. Most centrally, it is utterly perplexing that no single argument is mounted in the report to wave aside accusations that it depicts a totalitarian world governed by a digipsy‐complex. As it seems to presage the COVID crisis in its assertion that digital mental health care will and should be the future, this paper takes the pandemic as its point of departure. However, it does not set out not from the apparent digitalisation of psy‐care under COVID‐conditions, but rather, from the psychologisation of the COVID crisis itself; that is, individualising and pathologising the discontents and socio‐subjective sufferings under COVID. The aim is to tackle from here the intertwining of the psychological and the digital, of psychologisation and digitalisation. This article engages in a close ‘symptomatic reading’ of the report and makes two points. The first concerns how digitalisation as such is closely connected to the neurobiologisation of subjectivity. The second point is about how digitalisation is also closely connected to the commodification of all things subjective and social. After discussing and interrelating these two issues, the article explores what a critical response could be, and what it should not be.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ppi.1582","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42298431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hoffman report: The lesson we learned (?)","authors":"K. Kryuchkov","doi":"10.1002/PPI.1576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/PPI.1576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/PPI.1576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47354194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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