Full Description
Racism in Psychology examines the history of racism in psychological theory, practice and institutions.
The book offers critical reviews by scholars and practising therapists from the US, Africa, Asia, Aoteoroa New Zealand, Australia and Europe on racism on the couch and in the wider socio-historical context. The authors present a mixed experience of the success of efforts to counter racism in theory, institutions and organisations and differing views on the possibility of institutional change. Chapters discuss the experience of therapists, anti-Semitism, inter-sectionality and how psychological praxis is part of a colonialist project.
The book will appeal to practising psychologists and counsellors, socially minded psychotherapists, social workers, sociologists and students of psychology, social studies and race relations.
Contents
Foreword: Nimisha Patel; Part One. Institutional racism; 1. Race, racism and the psy project; 2. Invisible anti-Semitism in psychology; 3. The global system of white supremacy within UK clinical psychology: An African psychology perspective; 4. The Indigenous psychology curriculum in Australia - the risk of white-washing; 5. "Something less terrible than the truth": Oliver Twist and anti-Semitism; 6. Racism and the rights movement; Part Two. Race, theory and practice; 7. Racism and learning disabilities; 8. Judaism and the psy project; 9. Racism in New Zealand Psychology, or, Would Western Psychology be a Good Thing?; 10. Counselling the 'other'; 11. I Refuse to Choose: Culture, trans-culturalism and therapy; 12.Echo to Authenticity: Exploring identity in an age of privilege and supremacy; 13. Embracing the Kaleidoscope: Talking about racism in British Clinical Psychology
