Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2156147
P. Meades
ABSTRACT This qualitative research uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore lesbian and gay people’s experiences of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, and the implications for psychotherapy. A total of six participants, three gay men and three lesbian women, were identified through an initial online survey and successive purposive sampling. Data were collected using unstructured interviews and analysed to determine three major themes: ‘Religious Tribalism’, ‘Liminal Processes’, and ‘Navigating Relationships’. In the context of a wider social discourse regarding heterosexist hegemony, this project has the potential to increase psychotherapists’ awareness of the intersection of homosexuality and religion, and the diverse ways in which this plays out. The research invites therapists to consider any potentially socially constructed positions, and encourages a life-course perspective. Recommendations include providing high-quality training for therapists to understand, appreciate and interact with people from different cultures or belief systems from their own. Suggestions for future research include exploring heterosexual perspectives from within religious institutions, and exploration of the positive role of religion for non-heterosexual people.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2156142
D. Mahon
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for practitioners to be responsive to multicultural identities in clinical practice. Although the multicultural competency framework has been around for a number of decades, its overall utility and generalisability has not being consistently established. The book chapter approach to learning about multicultural engagement is rather limited, not least because it is impossible to learn about the vast identities of the different cultures that the average practitioner will work with in routine practice. In response to this gap in the literature, the current paper proposes an integrative model of multicultural responsiveness that brings together trans-theoretical practices from the extant literature. In doing so, this paper provides a model of multicultural practice that seeks to learn about the client’s complex multicultural identity during the assessment phase, during therapy, and by monitoring the process and outcome of care. A case vignette is provided demonstrating the application and utility of this model.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2156134
Erene Hadjiioannou, J. Saadi
ABSTRACT Equal access to mental healthcare is a right held by all Britons, yet evidence suggests that individuals from the LGBTQIA + population have poorer experiences compared to cisgender and heterosexual clients. This is problematic when considered alongside the impact of living in a societally disempowering world. Research highlights how our mental health systems perpetuate harm to LGBTQIA+ patients. One of these systems is the institution and practice of psychotherapy. We draw on our three fold positionalities to explore what change in the practice of psychotherapy could look like. Specifically, we consider what ‘Queering’ psychotherapy might mean in order to support the growing number of individuals identifying as LGBTQIA+. We also reflect on the binaries underpinning our discipline and discuss their role in perpetuating harm during psychotherapy. We propose that binary thinking restricts understanding our clients’ needs and generates insufficient models of care. We advocate a practice of fluidity, rather than rigidity, to support equitable practice. By ‘Queering’ psychotherapy provision in Britain, we contribute to the evidence base for anti-oppressive and inclusive practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2156151
Sarah M. Parsloe
ABSTRACT This article considers how psychotherapy might better serve disabled people and people with physical impairment. Psychotherapy stands accused of making things worse for people living with physical impairment. Exploration of the articulation by Freud and Lacan of the emergence of subjectivity reveals the reason for the distrust of the disability studies community. However, a call has been made for psychotherapy to reflect, reform and be of service. Aspects of psychotherapeutic philosophy stand ready to offer a meaningful response; phenomenology as elucidated by Heidegger, Levinas’ notions of alterity and the primacy of the other, and the unravelling of meta-narratives provided by post-modernism and post-structuralism. These aspects, together with the will to self-critique, offer a way of working that moves to an appropriate respect and service from psychotherapy for disabled people.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-12DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2143070
Frederic C. Baitinger
race, ethnicity and culture in and outside the therapy room. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 20(3), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.24135/ppi.v20i3.11 Watson, V. (2021). ‘Look in the mirror . . . and just below the surface’: Critical reflection, personal stories and training implications. In D. Charura & C. Lago (Eds.), Black identities and white therapies: Race, respect and diversity (pp. 65–76). PCCS Books.
{"title":"Sheehi Lara and Stephen Sheehi. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine","authors":"Frederic C. Baitinger","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2143070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2143070","url":null,"abstract":"race, ethnicity and culture in and outside the therapy room. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 20(3), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.24135/ppi.v20i3.11 Watson, V. (2021). ‘Look in the mirror . . . and just below the surface’: Critical reflection, personal stories and training implications. In D. Charura & C. Lago (Eds.), Black identities and white therapies: Race, respect and diversity (pp. 65–76). PCCS Books.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"54 1","pages":"214 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78114791","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2023.2175889
Terry Naughton
ABSTRACT Sexuality is a key element of the life of any human being. The present study aims to explore therapists’ experience of facilitating discussion of the topics of gender and sexuality in therapy. The design consisted of a qualitative approach using semi-structured in-depth interviews with five participants. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the transcripts where themes were identified. The results highlighted two superordinate themes and five sub-themes. The first superordinate theme is View from Within with three sub-themes: personal processing, level of comfort and self of the therapist. The World Outside is the second superordinate theme and it includes subthemes of therapy training and facilitating discussion of the topics. Conclusions highlighted that overall, therapists facilitate discussion of matters relating to gender and sexuality with clients. However, they feel unprepared by their training and may be reluctant to engage because of a lack of comfort and knowledge. An awareness of their own facilitation, personal processing and experiences enhances this offering. Despite certain challenges, the findings of this study suggest that therapists engage with these topics and this concurs with existing research.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2023.2175886
Pedro Pablo Sampaio Martins, Giovanna Cabral Doricci, O. Ness, Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi
ABSTRACT The question we address in this article comes from the tension that frequently arises from the contrast between a collaborative and a political stance in therapy: Can a therapist work coherently while being informed by both collaborative-dialogic and narrative practices? We return to the concepts of collaboration and politics, as informed by each of these perspectives, and propose to understand them as being doubly intertwined. This is done by means of conceptualising collaboration as a political stance and politics as collaborative action. From the standpoint of a social constructionist epistemology for therapy, we propose that collaboration and politics be seen as sensitizing concepts, which may be used as conversational options that may create different effects, depending on the relational context of therapy. A clinical case of individual therapy is presented as an example of what these concepts might look like in actual practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2143064
E. Manakas
References Doyle, E. (2015). “Recovery” in action: An institutional ethnography of addictions counselling work [Unpublished PhD Dissertation]. University of Calgary. Foucault, M. (1988). Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason. Vintage. Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Pantheon. Hutchby, I. (2007). The discourse of child counselling. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Rose, N. (1990). Governing the soul. Routledge. Smoliak, O., & Strong, T. (2018). Therapy as discourse: Practice and research. Palgrave Macmillan.
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