Psychotherapy, Anthropology and the Work of Culture

Anthropology and psychotherapy have a long and important historical relationship, and in this fascinating collection practitioners with experience in both fields explore how the concept of 'culture' is deployed to guide and frame contemporary therapeutic theory, training and practice.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Author biographies
Tanja Luhrmann. Preface
Keir Martin. Introduction
James Davies. Lessons from the Anthropological Field: reflecting on where culture and psychotherapy meet
Junko Kitanaka. Overcoming mistrust of the psychological: a history of psychotherapy in Japan
Inga-Britt Krause. Relating with or without Culture
Keir Martin. Therapy and the rise of the multicultural
Karen Seeley. History in the psyche, particles in the self: The case of Z
Salma Siddique. Western Configurations: Ways of Being
Vincent Crapanzano. Sprialling Transference: Ellen West and the Case History
Sudhir Kakar. Afterword

About the author

Keir Martin is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and was previously Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Summary

Anthropology and psychotherapy have a long and important historical relationship, and in this fascinating collection practitioners with experience in both fields explore how the concept of ‘culture’ is deployed to guide and frame contemporary therapeutic theory, training and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Keir Martin
• Assisted by: Keir Martin (Editor), Martin Keir (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2019
• EAN: 9780367182458
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18245-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Anthropology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Humanities, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis