Full Description
This is a book about racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression within the talking therapies, told from the therapist's perspective. Inside are powerful, first-person accounts of the often traumatising silencing of counsellors of colour within, and by, their own profession. These are searingly honest and rarely detailed stories of practitioners being shamed, excluded, violated, rendered invisible and deeply wounded by their experiences in training and in practice. But they are also stories of strength, courage, resourcefulness and growth. Some therapists may find deep recognition and affirmation in these accounts, as well as hope and healing. Others may better understand how their own fragility and bias have led them to similar behaviours and harmful mistakes. The book compellingly captures the nuances and fractures of racial and intersectional trauma and illustrates many of the damaging ways that conscious and unconscious ideas of race, and other aspects of personhood, are still woven into society. This is an essential read that brings together personal, psychological, societal and political insights to better imagine and further the discourse around what might facilitate meaningful change.
Contents
Foreword - Dwight Turner, Introduction, 1. What's in a name? Why names matter for people of colour - Neelam Zahid, 2. Cultivating intersectional nuance within the dissociative confines of capitalism - Rachel Cooke, 3. Attending to self, attending to others: Racial trauma in the therapy room - Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena, 4. Call me by my name - Anita Gaspar, 5. Diunital healing: My journey home - a multi-dimensional approach to therapy - Oye Agoro, 6. Racism and coercive control in an NHS-funded service - Anya Amrith and Roshmi Lovatt, 7. Confronting the colonial history of transphobia- Sam Hope, 8. (Inter)racial transference: A case of projective identification - Jaspreet Tehara, 9. A need for deep learning, not training - Joanna Traynor, 10. My journey to visibility: Using congruence to explore racial microaggressions within the supervisory relationship - Rajita Rajeshwar
