The Cross-Cultural Therapeutic Dyad

Davidson, Leah

doi:10.1080/00107530.1987.10746210

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“…In the absence of an interpretive frame accounting for cultural differences in self, feeling and relational style, unfamiliar cultural practices (eg, arranged marriage) were interpreted either through a universalistic lens that ignored the significance of culture or through a developmental lens that obscured the virtue of other ways of living. In recent years, however, there has been growing interest among psychoanalytic writers in the relationship between culture and self (see Roland, 1989;Altman, 1995;Cushman, 1995;Layton, 2004;Walls, 2004;White, 2004), as well more general interest in the crosscultural therapeutic dyad (see Davidson, 1987;Comas-Diaz and Jacobsen, 1991;Javier and Rendon, 1995;Perez-Foster, 1998;Akhtar, 1999;Seeley, 1999Seeley, , 2005Grey, 2001;Kuriloff, 2001;Kadyrov, 2002;Mann, 2002;Tummala-Narra, 2004;Bonovitz, 2005). Concordantly, pluralistic notions of cultural 'otherness' are emerging in psychoanalysis.…”

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Thinking through others: Cultural psychology and the psychoanalytic treatment of immigrants

Harlem

2009

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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Today's immigrants often have the twenty-first-century desire to maintain the cultural ideals and practices that their predecessors were eager to shed. This paper is concerned with psychoanalytic receptivity to these ideals and practices and, more abstractly, with the conception of cultural difference that informs psychoanalytic theory and practice. The author introduces a conceptual framework from cultural psychology to theorize differences in everyday practice, thought, feeling and relationship patterning across cultures. A case vignette contrasts three potential interpretive responses to a cultural practice that, while common around the world, is relatively unfamiliar to psychoanalysis. It is suggested that a pluralistic conception of difference facilitates modes of listening essential to psychoanalytic work across cultures. In addition, the author suggests that cultural psychology's pluralistic conception of difference may be useful to the psychoanalytic project of theorizing linkages between individual subjectivity, relational phenomena and culture.

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Thinking through others: Cultural psychology and the psychoanalytic treatment of immigrants

Harlem

2009

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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“…Goldberg et al (1974) and Holmes (1992) have two races-black and white. Davidson (1987) its between transcultural, cross-cultural and sub-cultural without discussing what makes a difference absolute or relative; thus she designates the Orient and the West as cultures, whilst the distinction between Jew and Roman Catholic is designated as sub-cultural. Meanwhile Zaphiropoulos (1987) makes ethnicity identical to culture and says racial or socioeconomic differences are sub-cultural.…”

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“…Davidson (1987), Zaphiropolous (1987), Speigel (1988 and Bhugra and Bhui (1998) focus on the contents of cultures. They argue that because we are the same at this deep level, then the thing of signi cance is that which makes us different-'culture'.…”

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Insides and Outsides: A review of psychoanalytic renderings of difference, racism and prejudice

Dalal

2001

Psychoanalytic Studies

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“…It enters into the gaps between trans ference and countertransference in the form of conflicting feelings and values. The patients' feelings regarding acceptability into a culture are important in establishing an authentic sense of self, yet are often not directly addressed by either patient or thera pist (Davidson, 1986).…”

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