By Jefferson M. Fish
Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what—if anything—should this suggest to pros in medical perform with varied consumers?
The formidable quantity The notion of Race and Psychotherapy probes those questions, compelling readers to seem another way at their consumers (and themselves), and delivering a pragmatic framework for better remedy. through tracing the racial “folk taxonomies” of 8 cultures within the Americas and the Caribbean, the writer elegantly defines race as a fluid build, depending on neighborhood social, political, and ancient context for that means yet meaningless within the face of technology. This leading edge point of view informs the remainder of the e-book, which addresses usually held assumptions approximately challenge habit and the will to alter, and provides a social-science-based treatment version, appropriate to quite a lot of present methods, that emphasizes either cultural styles and patron specialty. one of the highlights of the coverage:
- Common parts in treatment and therapeutic throughout cultures.
- The mental attraction of racial thoughts regardless of medical facts to the contrary.
- Lessons psychology can study from anthropology.
- Three kinds of healing relationships, with options for operating successfully in each.
- The phenomenon of discontinuous switch briefly therapy.
- Solution-focused treatment from a cross-cultural perspective.
Thought-provoking analyzing for psychologists, psychiatrists, medical social staff, and different psychological well-being pros in addition to graduate scholars in those fields, The thought of Race and Psychotherapy affirms the individuality—and the interconnectedness—of each client.
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Tavares in preparing this table and the accompanying discussion is gratefully acknowledged. many folk taxonomies, which differ from one another along linguistic and other cultural dimensions. None of these folk taxonomies corresponds to the biological facts of human physical variation. This is why race is a myth and why races as conceived by Americans (and others) do not exist. Research Studies of differences in behavior between American “populations” of “whites” and “blacks,” which seek to find biological causes rather than social ones, make an ethnocentric assumption.
A Brazilian immigrant—who views himself as white—being treated by an American therapist who assumes that he is not); some of these issues are addressed elsewhere (Fish, 1996). Immigration has increased, especially from geographical regions whose people do not resemble American images of blacks, whites, or Asians. Intermarriage is also increasing, as the stigma associated with it diminishes. These two trends are augmenting the physical diversity among those who marry each other—and, as a result, among their children.
When it comes to the diffusion of cultural ideas and objects, however, conceptual vagueness or circularity may be less troublesome. In operant conditioning, for example, the definition of a reinforcing stimulus is circular—it is a stimulus that reinforces. Nevertheless, the concept of a reinforcer has been an extremely productive one, yielding all kinds of reproducible data about conditioning, extinction, generalization, schedules of reinforcement, and so forth. In a similar way, if the meme concept yields new data, empirical relationships, and theoretical insights about cultural phenomena (or anything else, including the brain and consciousness for that matter), then it should be regarded as a useful one.
