Full Description
This book represents the author's extensive experience in the field of psychotherapy, counselling, and mental health over four decades.
It focuses on the culture of psychotherapy and counselling in context, made more relevant and dialogic with the inclusion of reflections from colleagues from South Asia on each chapter. Informed by person-centred psychology and transactional analysis, and the book takes a meta-view of the different elements that influence the internal and external worlds of both the therapist and the client. Concepts of space, time, place, and persons are contextualised in and across different cultures. The book very succinctly describes life with its polarities of suffering and hope, and anxieties and satisfaction within the uniqueness of the therapeutic relationship.
This volume is the outcome of extensive research, a wide range of experiences, and a synthesis of different therapies and minds. It is an excellent guide for therapists, both beginning and experienced. This book will be useful to students, researchers, teachers, and supervisors working in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, and sociology. It will also be an invaluable companion to educationalists and practitioners in these fields.
Contents
About the Editor x
Contributors xi
Forewords xvi
Introduction 1
Keith Tudor
PART 1
Concepts 7
1 Space: The philosophy of Temenos (1999) 9
Keith Tudor and Louise Embleton Tudor
Reflection by A. Geethan and Anuradha Kannan
2 Time (2001, 2002, 2008) 17
Keith Tudor
Reflection by C. Suriyaprakash
3 Persons, polarities, and positions (2007) 39
Keith Tudor
Reflection by P. K. Saru
4 Interdependence (2018) 53
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Haseena Abdulla
5 Alienation (2018) 67
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Deepak Dhananjaya
PART 2
Cross-cultural encounters 85
6 Cultural conditions (1997) 87
Jasvinder Singh and Keith Tudor
Reflection by Sailaja Manacha
7 'Reading the air' (2016) 107
Noboru Komiya and Keith Tudor
Reflection by Aruna Gopakumar
8 Family: The fa'asamoa (2017) 122
Julia Ioane and Keith Tudor
Reflection by Prathitha Gangadharan
9 He tangata Tiriti tātou (2021) 138
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Shoba Nayar
10 On new ground (2020) 148
Brian Rodgers and Keith Tudor
Reflection by Suvarna Puranik
11 Bicultural encounter (2022) 165
Shirley Rivers, Brian Rodgers, Janet May, and Keith Tudor
Reflection by Deepak Dhananjaya
12 War (2022) 183
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Mitra Heidari
PART 3
Practice and theory 201
13 Co-creation (2019) 203
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Gunjan Zutshi
14 Teaching (2009) 219
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Nisha Rao
15 Supervision (2021) 244
Keith Tudor
Reflection by Chitra Ravi
References 267
Index 300
