COURSE DESCRIPTION
Multiculturalism is rapidly becoming recognized as the forth major force in psychology alongside the traditional psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic psychologies. Central to this introductory course is the idea that we can never know the fullness of anyone else’s cultural identifications and orientations. In this sense all relationships are cross-cultural encounters. How can each of us in our professional work learn to open ourselves to differences, to diversity, to ethnicity, to ethnosexuality, to our own prejudices and to prejudices and hatreds aimed at us? The ground-breaking work of Derald Wing Sue, Allan Ivey, Paul Petersen, Alan Roland, Charles Ridley, Coronel West, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Geert Hofstede, Neil Altman, RoseMarie Pérez-Foster, John Mura, Joane Nagel, Takeo Doi, Sumie Okazaki, Suarez-Orozco, and numerous others will be considered. Telling episodes from a number of bi-cultural and ethnic novelists such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Marie Arana, Lan Cao, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Eva Hoffman Louis Rodriguez, Isabel Allende, Richard Right, Maxine Hong Kingston, and their implications for psychotherapy will be presented and discussed. Participants will be encouraged to discuss some of their own cross-cultural encounters. |
TOPICS
• The importance of defining our own fears and prejudices and working towards overcoming them
• Issues surrounding the ethnosexual frontier and how they emerge in the transference/countertransference matrix
• Trends in population changes, immigration, children of immigration, class differences, and global diversity
• Complications of inter-group prejudice, the dynamics of hatred, and the contributions of fear and uncertainty to inter-ethnic tensions
• Racism, racial prejudice, definitions of race and raciality, covert and implied racism |
GOALS
At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:
• To learn how multiculturalism is coming to constitute the fourth force in the clinical disciplines
• To become able to formulate the major concerns of multicultural approaches to psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy
• To learn what is involved when any two people attempt to bridge their worlds of cultural difference
• To develop an appreciation for a multi-ethnic approach to interpersonal relationships that denies the objective reality of race while honoring the subjective realities of diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic identities.
• To learn how immigration, children of immigration, central city living, class and ethnic differences all have an impact on clinical practice
• To learn how to identify the ethnosexual frontier and how it manifests in the transference/countertransference matrix
SPEAKER PROFILE |
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Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP is a psychologist-psychoanalyst (#PSY 3567) in private practice specializing in the training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He is director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. He holds faculty appointments at the California Graduate Institute and the University of California, Irvine, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Hedges holds Diplomates from The American Board of Professional Psychology and The American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is author of numerous papers and books on the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including the following texts: Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Interpreting the Countertransference,
Strategic Emotional Involvement, Working the Organizing Experience, and Remembering, Repeating & Working Through Childhood Trauma. His books on professional issues, ethics, and risk management in psychotherapy include Therapists at Risk and the award-winning Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy. |