Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Malin Fors is a Swedish psychologist and psychoanalyst living in the world's most northern town, Hammerfest, Norway. She has broad experience in both clinical work and teaching. She has worked for a decade at the local hospital's psychiatric outpatient unit and also has a busy private practice.For more than 10 years, as a guest lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Dr. Fors has been teaching students in clinical psychology about how issues of power, privilege, and gender create biases in the assessment of psychopathology.
She is assistant professor at University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency.
Dr. Fors also serves as an external examiner for the Swedish Psychological Association's Specialist degree program. She was chosen to represent the Psychiatric Clinics on the Clinical Ethics Board for the Finnmark Hospital Trust, 2009–2012. A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy is her first book-length manuscript.
Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege
amp ldquo Writing from a sophisticated feminist ethics viewpoint, Fors (Univ. of Troms amp oslash , Norway) offers a amp lsquo matrix of relative privilege amp rsquo as a conceptual model designed to untangle and heighten awareness surrounding the subtle cultural blindness affecting psychotherapy amp hellip Recommended. amp rdquo -<i>Choice</i><br /><br /> amp ldquo To ignore power and privilege disparities in psychotherapy is to effectively ignore their existence within the broader societal and global context. Malin Fors amp rsquo detailed examination of power and privilege dynamics allows readers to learn not only what the literature says, but also to hear firsthand accounts of Fors amp rsquo experiences both in and out of the therapeutic dyad. Lastly, Fors' leaves space to discuss where we can go from here and reminds the reader that this book is not intended as a manual or set of instructions, rather an incomplete, ever-evolving grammar geared at upheaving clinical blind spots, and raising awareness around power and privilege disparities within psychotherapy. amp rdquo -APA Division 44 Newsletter
Societal issues based in power and privilege inevitably enter the therapy room. In this book author Malin Fors offers an intersectional grammar to unmask the hidden dynamics. Integrating theory, research, and a wealth of clinical narratives, Fors explores four core situations: when therapist and patient have similar levels of social power, when either therapist or patient has more privilege relative to the other, and when both therapist and patient have similar levels of nonprivilege.
This fresh synthesis-for which the author was awarded the 2 APA Division 39 Johanna K. Tabin Book Proposal Prize-offers new language for understanding power dynamics in psychotherapy, counseling, and all treatment relationships. Clinical topics explored include voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, visible and invisible similarities between patient and therapist, internalized oppression, and choosing whether or not to address privilege explicitly, among many others.
Nancy McWilliams contributed the Foreword to this book, which gives professionals from any therapy orientation a helpful framework for aligning their desire for social justice with healing interactions around race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, age, and other differences.
amp ldquo Writing from a sophisticated feminist ethics viewpoint, Fors (Univ. of Troms amp oslash , Norway) offers a amp lsquo matrix of relative privilege amp rsquo as a conceptual model designed to untangle and heighten awareness surrounding the subtle cultural blindness affecting psychotherapy amp hellip Recommended. amp rdquo -<i>Choice</i><br /><br /> amp ldquo To ignore power and privilege disparities in psychotherapy is to effectively ignore their existence within the broader societal and global context. Malin Fors amp rsquo detailed examination of power and privilege dynamics allows readers to learn not only what the literature says, but also to hear firsthand accounts of Fors amp rsquo experiences both in and out of the therapeutic dyad. Lastly, Fors' leaves space to discuss where we can go from here and reminds the reader that this book is not intended as a manual or set of instructions, rather an incomplete, ever-evolving grammar geared at upheaving clinical blind spots, and raising awareness around power and privilege disparities within psychotherapy. amp rdquo -APA Division 44 Newsletter
Societal issues based in power and privilege inevitably enter the therapy room. In this book author Malin Fors offers an intersectional grammar to unmask the hidden dynamics. Integrating theory, research, and a wealth of clinical narratives, Fors explores four core situations: when therapist and patient have similar levels of social power, when either therapist or patient has more privilege relative to the other, and when both therapist and patient have similar levels of nonprivilege.
This fresh synthesis-for which the author was awarded the 2 APA Division 39 Johanna K. Tabin Book Proposal Prize-offers new language for understanding power dynamics in psychotherapy, counseling, and all treatment relationships. Clinical topics explored include voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, visible and invisible similarities between patient and therapist, internalized oppression, and choosing whether or not to address privilege explicitly, among many others.
Nancy McWilliams contributed the Foreword to this book, which gives professionals from any therapy orientation a helpful framework for aligning their desire for social justice with healing interactions around race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, age, and other differences.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Malin Fors is a Swedish psychologist and psychoanalyst living in the world's most northern town, Hammerfest, Norway. She has broad experience in both clinical work and teaching. She has worked for a decade at the local hospital's psychiatric outpatient unit and also has a busy private practice.For more than 10 years, as a guest lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Dr. Fors has been teaching students in clinical psychology about how issues of power, privilege, and gender create biases in the assessment of psychopathology.
She is assistant professor at University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency.
Dr. Fors also serves as an external examiner for the Swedish Psychological Association's Specialist degree program. She was chosen to represent the Psychiatric Clinics on the Clinical Ethics Board for the Finnmark Hospital Trust, 2009–2012. A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy is her first book-length manuscript.