Intercultural Awareness
My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System
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What happens when motherhood isn’t what you expected – and when you reach out for support, you are met with judgment and prejudice?
Sandra Igwe shares her journey as a young Black mother, coping with sleepless nights, anxiety and loneliness after the birth of her first daughter. Burdened by cultural expectations of the ‘good mother’ and the ‘strong Black woman’ trope, her mental health struggles became an uphill battle.
Beyond White Mindfulness: Critical Perspectives on Racism, Well-being and Liberation
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The first book of its kind to bring together scholarly and personal reflections on mindfulness for diverse populations, Beyond White Mindfulness offers social science students and practitioners in this area a new perspective on mindfulness and suggestions for future scholarship.
Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive
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An empowering and self-preserving tool, Supporting Trans People of Colour is an invaluable resource for therapists, counsellors, healthcare professionals, and those working in education and charities, as well as those wanting to make their approach and service more inclusive.
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Black Identities + White Therapies: Race, Respect + Diversity
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This book is a wake-up call to the profession to develop more inclusive models of theory and practice, and to every counsellor, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist to review their professional practice and ensure a better fit between the aspirations and theories of their professional calling and the needs of our multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society today.
The Roles We Play
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Two-thirds of today’s British Pakistani diaspora trace their origins back to Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, a district that saw mass displacement and migration when it was submerged by the waters of a dam built after Partition. Sabba Khan’s debut graphic memoir explores what identity, belonging and memory mean for her and her family against the backdrop of this history.
Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory
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Lacan and Race will be a definitive text for psychoanalytic theorists and contemporary scholars of race, appealing to readers across the fields of psychology, cultural studies, humanities, politics, and sociology.
Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma
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For the past 15 years, radical psychologist and therapist Guilaine Kinouani has helped hundreds of Black people to protect their mental and physical health from the harm of white supremacy. In this timely book, she brings together powerful case studies, eye-opening research and effective coping techniques from her anti-racist academy and award-nominated blog.
Racism in Psychology: Challenging Theory, Practice and Institutions
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Racism in Psychology examines the history of racism in psychological theory, practice, and institutions.
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
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‘Whiteness’ is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is essential for supporting the movement for change. This book explores these implications from a psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic perspective.
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
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We need to talk about racial injustice in a different way: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of the past and forges new connections.
Mother Tongue and Other Tongues: Narratives in Multilingual Psychotherapy
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This is an investigation into the importance of language in terms of identity, culture and the meaning of home.
Black Skin, White Masks
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‘This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism’ Angela Davis
Race and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings: A Manual for Professionals
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“Race” and Culture: Tools, Techniques and Trainings is a practical resource for trainers who wish to work with the issues raised by racial and cultural diversity in their own agency settings.
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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My Grandmother’s Hands is an extraordinary call to action for all of us to recognize that racism effects not only the mind, but also the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our racial divides.
Other Tongues: Psychological therapies in a multilingual world
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This book is a powerful plea to the counselling profession to acknowledge the riches clients’ other languages can bring to the therapeutic relationship. To ignore multilingualism risks not only overlooking important meanings in the nuances of emotional expression but also perpetuating inequalities in access to therapy.
The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race
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In The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Fanny Brewster revisits and examines Jung’s classical writing on the theory of complexes, relating it directly to race in modern society. In this groundbreaking exploration, Brewster deepens Jung’s minimalist writing regarding the cultural complexes of American blacks and whites by identifying and re-defining a psychological complex related to ethnicity.
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing
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This is a powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. This book offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame.
Overcoming Everyday Racism Building Resilience and Wellbeing in the Face of Discrimination and Microaggressions
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This enlightening and reflective guide studies the psychological impact of racism and discrimination on BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) people and offers steps to improve wellbeing. It includes definitions of race, racism and other commonly used terms, such as microaggressions, and evaluates the effect of definitions used to describe BAME people.
White Privilege Unmasked: How to Be Part of the Solution
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This book explore how white people view cultural differences through a prism of privilege, and how this can impact how they relate to others personally and professionally.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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This book should be mandatory reading for all white people — Otegha Uwagba
Whiteness and White Privilege in Psychotherapy
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This unprecedented, interdisciplinary collection focuses on gender, whiteness, and white privilege, and sheds light on this understudied subject matter in the context of clinical psychology, in both theories and applications.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch’s personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be – and an urgent call for change.
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
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Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss is a powerful exploration of the intergenerational psychological effects of child loss as experienced by women held in slavery in the Americas and of its ongoing effects in contemporary society. It presents the concept of archetypal grief in African American women: cultural trauma so deeply wounding that it spans generations.
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.