How do people of colour, who identify as social justice activists, experience and make sense of talking about issues of race with a white therapists? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
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- Title
- How do people of colour, who identify as social justice activists, experience and make sense of talking about issues of race with a white therapists? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
- Creator
- Nina Dearden
- Date
- 2017
- Abstract
- This research explores how people of colour who identify as social justice activists, and who have been or are in therapy with a white therapist, experience and make sense of talking about issues of race with a white therapist, as a way to better understand how race, psychotherapy, and politics intersect. Using interpretative phenomological analysis to conduct and analyse three semi-structured interviews, it finds that participants personal-political understandings of race play an important role in framing their experiences; that participants experience feelings of being not fully heard or understood, and a sense that something is missing when talking to white therapists about race; and that they have adopted strategies to to navigate perceived perspective gaps between them and their therapist. It also highlights the overall ambivalence that characterises their experiences.
- Subject
- Psychotherapy and Counselling
- Extent
- 98 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Regent's University London
- degree
- MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Language
- English
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis & Dissertation
- Rights Holder
- Regent's University London & Nina Dearden
- Item sets
- Theses or Dissertation