The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy

von: Jefferson M. Fish

Springer-Verlag, 2010

ISBN: 9781441975768 , 179 Seiten

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The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy


 

Preface

6

Acknowledgments

9

Credits

9

About the Author

10

Contents

12

1 The Myth of Race

15

What Is Race?

15

Etics and Emics

16

Human Physical Variation

16

Folk Taxonomies

19

American ''Races''

20

Brazilian ''Tipos''

22

Ancestry and Physical Appearance in Other Folk Taxonomies

25

Haiti

28

Martinique

31

Puerto Rico

32

Ecuador

34

Jamaica

35

Cape Verde

37

The Myth of Race: Implications

39

Research

40

Immigrants

41

The Census

41

In Conclusion

42

2 The Spread of the Race Meme

43

The Meme Meme

43

Out of Africa

45

Out of Europe

48

The Race Meme in Twenty-First Century Europe

50

The Race Meme and the Selfplex

53

3 How Anthropology Can Help Psychology

55

Physics as an Inappropriate Model for Psychology

56

Ethnocentrism

60

Psychologists and Status

61

Culture

62

Etics and Emics

67

Psychologists Belief in Race

69

In Conclusion

71

4 Divided Loyalties and the Responsibility of Social Scientists

72

Am I a Social Scientist First or an American First?

76

Am I a Social Scientist First or a Man or a Woman First?

76

Am I a Social Scientist First or White or Black First?

77

Am I a Social Scientist First or Jewish First?

77

Am I a Social Scientist First or an Anthropologist, Economist, Historian, Linguist, Political Scientist, Psychologist, or Sociologist First?

79

Am I a Social Scientist First or an Employee First?

80

5 The Conservative - Liberal Alliance Against Freedom

84

Four Ideological Types

85

Ideological Convergence in Support of the Drug War

85

Ideological Convergence in Support of Other Punitive Policies

87

Repression Has Become Pervasive

89

6 Sociocultural Theory and Therapy

91

7 Common Elements in Therapy and Healing Across Cultures

103

Process and Content

103

Does Psychology Have Any Content?

103

The Recapitulation Fallacy

104

Dealing with Unacceptable Difference

105

Ethnocentrism

106

Etics and Emics

106

Definitions and Applications

106

Issues in Making Generalizations

108

Six Commonalties in Search of a Theory

110

Industrialization and Globalization

110

Social Structure, Economics, and Power

113

Cultural Factors

114

The Interactional Perspective

114

Expectancy and Placebo

115

Learning and Cognition

117

8 Discontinuous Change

118

9 Does Problem Behavior Just Happen?

128

Overdetermination, Current Maintenance, or Natural Occurrence?

129

Psychoanalysis

129

Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

129

Systems Movement

130

Solution-Focused Therapy

131

How Useful Is the Search for Causes?

132

Is Causation a Cultural Construction?

136

How Might Therapists Change?

136

10 Prevention, Solution-Focused Therapy, and the Illusion of Mental Disorders

138

11 Strategic Thoughts About Solution-Focused Therapy

144

12 A Cross-Cultural View of Solution-Focused Therapy

150

Historical Background

150

Theoretical Concepts

152

Solutions

152

Exceptions

153

Cooperation and the Therapeutic Relationship

154

Customer Relationship

156

Complainant relationship

156

Visitor Relationship

158

Systems

158

Relevant Principles of Psychology

159

Positive Expectancies

159

Self-efficacy

160

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior

160

Labeling

160

Reversal of Gestalt

161

Clinical Techniques

161

Pretend/Do a Little Bit of the Miracle

161

Observe What Is Happening When

162

Formula First Session Task

162

Scaling Questions

162

A Case Example

163

Cross-Cultural Perspective

165

References

170

Subject Index

184