Culture, Psychotherapy, and Counseling: Critical and Integrative Perspectives / Edition 1

by Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand

Overview

Culture, Psychotherapy, and Counseling: Critical and Integrative Perspectives takes a comprehensive approach to culture as it relates to psychological practice. By viewing psychotherapy and counseling as science-based cultural enterprises, this book expands the understanding of culture in terms of the politics of identity, symbolic and practice meanings, moral ontology, and global realities. Editor Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand brings together a diverse group of authors to present different accounts and case examples of their work as practitioners to illustrate the integration of the personal with the professional.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761930525
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/22/2005
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author/editor of three books and over forty other publications. Her recent work includes an edited book, Creativity and moral vision in Psychology: Narratives of identity and commitment in a postmodern age (Sage, 1998), an article “Narrative psychology” in the Encyclopedia of psychology (American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, 1999/2000), the book chapter “Psychotherapy as an instrument of culture” in Critical issues in psychotherapy (Sage, 2001), and an article “Narratology, cultural psychology, and counseling research” (Journal of Counseling Psychology, in press). She has published and presented on cultural psychology, qualitative research methodology, clinical teaching, reflective practice, and transformative education. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist, she has served on the editorial board of a number of journals in counseling psychology, theoretical and philosophical psychology, and community psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Thinking Through Culture - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
2. Culture and the Field of Psychotherapy and Counseling - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
PART II: THERAPIST ACCOUNTS: REFLECTION, CRITIQUE, AND INTEGRATION
3. Psychotherapy and Counselling as Cultural Work - John Mc Leod
4. The Felt Sense as Avenue of Human Experiencing for Integrative Growth - Doralee Grindler Katonah
5. Integrating the World’s Psychologies - William L. Mikulas
6. Hawaiian Psychology - William C. Rezentes, III
7. Toward a Feminist Ecological Awareness - Dana Becker
8. A Woman’s View of Clinical Trauma Theory and Therapy - Susan H. Gere
9. Hermeneutics and the Moral Dimension of Psychotherapy - John Chambers Christopher
10. Cultural Conflict, Values, and Relational Learning in Psychotherapy - Del Loewenthal
PART III: CONCLUSION
11. Summary and Conclusion - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
About the Editor
About the Authors
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

"The Hoshmand book covers a wide range of literature on multiculturalism and makes an important provocative contribution to the field. The writing style reflects the complexity of multicultural topics as a positive feature, demonstrated in many specific examples. "

Paul B. Pedersen

"Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand implicitly extends this metaphoric concept of circle to the meaning of culture in the counseling and therapy process. Her vision of a circle of life is based on an integrative understanding of culture as embedded in human experience in all of its facets. "

Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books - Giselle B. Esquivel

Lisa Hoshmand has drawn together an outstanding group of critically aware mental health practitioner(s)…from widely divergent cultural experiences—Feminist, post-modern, holistic health, existential, Buddhist, Hawaiian. Faculty and students wishing to discover what it means to be a culturally situated, and morally and spiritually informed, counseling and psychotherapy practitioner will find this volume to be a virtual goldmine of insights and recommendations.

Ronald B. Miller

"Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand implicitly extends this metaphoric concept of circle to the meaning of culture in the counseling and therapy process. Her vision of a circle of life is based on an integrative understanding of culture as embedded in human experience in all of its facets. "— Giselle B. Esquivel

Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books of Books

"In this volume, Hoshmand and her contributors both explicate and perform a much broader understanding of what culture is, and of the ways in which it inescapably does (and should) influence psychotherapeutic and counseling theory and practice. . . Virtually all of the chapters blend personal history, theoretical reflection and clinical material in interesting ways that enhance the reader’s appreciation of the many contexts that surround and infuse the therapeutic encounter. Taken together, they persuade the reader of the need for therapists to assume a self-reflective and critical stance towards their own practices and professional culture. This book is a valuable contribution to this general project. It should be of interest to experienced counselors and therapists, as well as to students and those who supervise them. "

Suzanne Kirschner

Culture, Psychotherapy, and Counseling: Critical and Integrative Perspectives is a must reading for all mental health professionals and for students in counseling and psychotherapy courses. Both separately and as a collection, the book's chapters position culture as a central determinant of health and healing, and sensitize the reader to the absolute necessity of understanding the powerful spectrum of cultural forces that shape human relationships in general, and therapeutic encounters specifically.

Anthony J. Marsella