Being White
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Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness |
In this book Judy Ryde explores how white people, by fully acknowledging and understanding their privileged position, may work effectively in a multicultural setting. The writing of this book brings in sociological and psychological theory but most importantly is a personal journey and one in which the reader is invited to join.
'The book will make every analyst, psychotherapist or counsellor – indeed everyone in the helping professions – reflect on who they are as they work, far beyond what is already managed in the relational and intersubjective traditions.'
Judy has managed to bring three diverse impossibilities together into one challenging whole: citizenship, professionalism and individuation.’ Profession Andrew Samuels, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Professor Samuels has a special interest in how politics and psychotherapy interface. 'In this text, based upon her doctoral research, Judy has embarked upon a serious metaphorical speleological, or diving, expedition to discover, uncover and recover the multifarious constituents of ‘whiteness’. She has dared to dive beneath the surface of that which is frequently assumed to be the ‘norm’, to be ‘opaque’, to be there but not there, to be enigmatic.’ From the foreword to this book by Colin Lago, author of many books on Race and Culture including Race, Culture and Counselling published by Open University Press.