| Therapy Across Culture Contributor(s): Krause, Inga-Britt (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0803975279 ISBN-13: 9780803975279 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 97062540 |
| Series: Perspectives on Psychotherapy |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.64 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an important book which has a broader relevance to psychotherapists than its title suggests. In an academically rigorous style... and drawing on her own experience as an anthropologist and systemic (family) therapist, Inga-Britt Krause shows how ethnographic methodology (fieldwork) and its research findings can be drawn on to radically deepen our clinical insight into difference... Krause is both challenging and refreshing in her approach. She goes beyond asserting the need for insights to be gleaned from anthropology in cross-cultural clinical work to suggest that psychoanalysis itself could also benefit... Thinking about her book has focused my interest in the cultural dimensions of clinical work, and in the role of kinship, ta |
Contributor Bio(s): Krause, Inga-Britt: - Inga-Britt Krause is an anthropologist and a family therapist at the Marlborough Family Service in London. |