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Articles

The following articles speak into the issues of race and culture in the psychotheraputic process. All articles have a UK focus. If you would like to add to this library please send to eugene@baatn,org.uk.

Towards a Rainbow-Coloured Theraputic Community Eugene Ellis
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Psychology in the English - speaking Caribbean  Tony Ward and Frederick Hickling  PDF  Link
Race-specific workplace stress  Aileen Alleyne  .DOC  Link
Black identity and workplace oppression  Aileen Alleyne   PDF  Link
The Internal Oppressor and Black identity wounding
Aileen Alleyne  PDF  Link
 The internal oppressor - the veiled companion of external racial oppression Aileen Alleyne PDF 
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Politics in the therapy room  Beverley Ellis  PDF  Link
Understanding black issues in the therapeutic process. (published in the AUCC journal - summer 2004. Copyright jointly owned by BACP and Isha McKenzie-Mavinga)  Isha McKenzie-Mavinga  PDF  Link
Understanding black issues in postgraduate counsellor training  Isha McKenzie-Mavinga  PDF  Link
Is Counsellor Training Colour Blind?
Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
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Reflection in being a minority at a Psychotherapy Conference Isha McKenzie-Mavinga PDF  Link
The myth of post racism and my hope for transcultural therapy -  The Big Idea - Confer Conference 2010 Isha McKenzie-Mavinga PDF
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 Audrey James interviews Isha McKenzie-Mavinga on Gloucester FM radio. Isha McKenzie-Mavinga youtube  Link
Psychotherapy in a Multi-Ethnic Society (with particular reference to Muslim clients)  Qulsoom Inayat   PDF  Link
Reworking Stereotypes for Self Identity in a Black Men's Psychotherapy Group   Lennox K Thomas  PDF  Link
Exploring White Racial Identity And Its Impact On Psychotherapy And Psychotherapy Organisations.

(I read a fantastic PhD paper by Judith Ryde, which I have used with white students to help them look at their racial identity. 'Race issues' in training usually focus on the non white experience but she brings home how racialising that is in itself - Ruth Calland) 
Judith Ryde  PDF  Link
African Centered Psychology   Cheryl Tawede Grills, PHD   PDF  Link
Exploring the link between Music and Psychotherapy from a Transpersonal Perspective   Dwight Turner  PDF  Link
Philosophy, ‘Race’ and Mental Health   V. A. De Maynard  PDF  Link
Confidentiallity in Counselling Asian Clients  Herminder Virdee  PDF  Link
Counselling in Asian Communities  Herminder Virdee  PDF  Link
Frued along the Ganges : Psychoanalytical reflections on the culture and people of india   Edited by Salman Akhtar  PDF  Link
A third individuation: Imigration, Identity and the psychoanalytical process  Salman Akhtar  PDF  Link
What they don't want us to know: How to make life more wonderful  Zhana  PDF  Link
The Smoke That Thunders  Dwight Turner  PDF  Link
Mental Health needs with Asians Part 1   Dr Bobby Sura  PDF  Link
Asian Mental Health:Part 2 - Sources of Stress  Dr Bobby Sura   PDF  Link
Asian Mental Health:Part 3 - Barriers to seeking help for mental health problems  Dr Bobby Sura   PDF  Link
Invisible injuries and silent witnesses:The shadow
of racial oppression in workplace contexts 
Aileen Alleyne  PDF  Link
Forever in My Life:An Afro-Caribbean perspective on intimacy  Dwight D. Turner  PDF  Link
Multicultural Counselling: From diversity to universality  C. H. Patterson  PDF  Link
The Internal Oppressor and Black identity wounding Aileen Alleyne PDF
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 Racism as Living Brutality Narendra Keval  PDF  Link
Racist states of mind: an attack on
thinking and curiosity
Narendra Keval  PDF  Link
Filling the psychic gap: understanding
psychosornatic problerns in a rnulticultural clinic
Narendra Keval  PDF  Link
Understanding the trauma of racial violence in a black patient  Narendra Keval  PDF  Link
An exploration of three issues raised by Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved. The link between literary fiction and psychotherapy, the issue of mothering,
both in its universality and with particular regard to slavery, and the implications of
the legacy of slavery in literature for writers, readers and partners in the
psychotherapeutic relationship.
Bernadette Hawkes  PDF Link
Susan Cousins takes a personal perspective and explores how it feels to be a lone black worker Susan Cousins   PDF  Link
Breaking the Circles of Fear -
A review of the relationship between
mental health services and
African and Caribbean communities
Published by
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
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 Jay-Z article 'The boy from the hood who turned out good'
Guardian News
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