Cultural Standards, Power and Subversion in Cross-cultural Psychotherapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2394573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Rechtman (Université Paris 5, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-180 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transcultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363461506064847 |
| PMID | 16893870 |
| OpenAlex | W2130755768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
In a creolizing world, psychotherapy is challenged by the growing influence of cultural standards, systems of meaning and idioms of distress supported by new groups who play a major role in public health policies. While these elements were originally introduced in psychotherapy with ethnic minorities both to improve the patient-doctor relationship and to bring relevant material from patients' cultural background, they also became a way to empower nonwestern patients in western health care systems. When in the 1980s it became possible to readdress the issue of power in psychiatric practice, something had already changed in the social regulation that psychiatry should endorse. In this article, the author focuses on the new legitimated social and cultural values that underpin the therapeutic process. While obviously these new values should be taken into account, the aim for psychotherapy remains to find a path for a 'subversive' practice that could be something more than just following social guidelines
Distress · Ethnic group · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Subversion · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2014 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |