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Patients psychic suffering is often associated with ideas of femininity and masculinity. However, this influence of gender often remains un reflected both on the patients and the psychotherapists side. In a discourse-analytical study, the perspective of seven psychotherapists is therefore examined using the example of agreement in goal-processes. It is worked out whether the interviewed psychotherapists are aware of their own assumptions about gender, whether they tend to reproduce or decrease gender stereotypes and whether they consider their own gender to be relevant in the therapeutic process. The results of the study show that the psychotherapists are sensitive to different gender aspects when they are prompted to reflect. The results thus point to the need to actively promote gender sensitivity in the training and supervision of psychotherapists in order to make such reflection processes an integral part of psychotherapeutic treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There is fundamental confusion and notable omissions within counselling and psychotherapy's adoption of diversity principles. This prevents the profession from achieving its aims of more respectful and efficacious clinical practice with certain populations. The article argues that uncritical over-reliance on ideas from outside the profession has resulted in a failure to appraise which groups might require specific attention. Unacknowledged confusion between celebratory and critical approaches to diversity is also identified as a source of practical muddle. Putatively radical assertions about understanding minority group experience are shown to actually exclude valuable ways of understanding social disadvantage, which might better enhance our understanding and efficacy. The article concludes by suggesting that the multiple difficulties within the profession's embrace of diversity can be understood in terms of a refusal to reconsider the theoretical, economic and organisational foundations of our therapeutic work to which questions of diversity pose a serious challenge. A case is made for a more open discussion of the relevant issues accompanied by a call for revised professional organization to support knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a commentary on the articles in this special issue on diversity and inclusion. The concepts of diversity and inclusion are critiqued, and a critical diversity approach is promoted. The difficulties and strengths for the profession of counselling and psychotherapy adopting this approach are explored. Ableism is raised as an issue with a plea for ongoing deconstruction of language and attention to inequalities both within and without the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a response to the papers in this special issue. It argues that change and learning is necessary to keep a contemporary psychotherapy practice. However, it asserts that change is also difficult because allowing ourselves to face our 'blind spots' may provoke uncomfortable feelings such as shame. It is therefore important for psychotherapists to be robust in managing the discomfort of learning. With this in mind, the article comments on the papers in this issue, which pay attention to the diversity of our modern populations – including LGBTQ+ people, people of diverse ethnic and racial identities and disabled people. The article argues that by embracing diversity the psychotherapy profession can continue to evolve, enabling it to support diverse communities in the best way possible. It asserts that each of the articles in this special issue invites the reader into a deep self-reflection, helping them to consider all the nuances of difference constructively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to explore phenomenologically how the 'inside' (psychical) and 'outside' (the other and/or society) interweave since it appears that sometimes those of us who favour diversity may also inadvertently shut it down. Phenomenology appears to open more easily onto what we don't want to know about in our everyday lives, or a turning away which impedes diversity. If we cannot hear our own thoughts that come to us from the 'inside', then how can we move towards diversity on the 'outside'. The tensions between turning away and turning towards leads into a Freudian look at conscience and aggression, and Lacan's idea of the ego being the seat of identification and misrecognition. Freud's observation of an 'original' aggression towards the other appears especially important. It is argued that this aggression always fragments the movement towards diversity. Two factors appear to mediate this movement, namely a 'negative' exclusion, and a 'positive' ameliorative 'law'. Two fictional accounts are given from everyday life reflecting societal and psychical aggression, including its 'privacy' or sensual meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung's theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors' desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially in a diversity workshop and later by way of duoethnological dialogue, using transcripts of recorded conversation between the authors as well as email exchange. Notions of a colonizer archetype and ethnic shadow are presented and elaborated. The six conceptualized themes in relation to the exploration of colonialism in the cultural layer of the objective psyche are as follows: (1) Belonging, (2) The layered psyche and our understanding of difference, (3) Facing the ethnic shadow, (4) The colonizing archetype in the consulting room, (5) The exploration of colonial structures in the psyche and, lastly, (6) Valuing emancipatory encounter. These themes support an argument for the praxis of societal and internal encounters in order to raise the colonizer archetype and split off shadow material to consciousness, in the hope of bringing about a personal and cultural shift away from oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facile scrivere la parola “cultura” meno metterla in atto; la situazione si complica poi se aggiungiamo i concetti di differenza e diversità. Ancora più controverso si fa il discorso se affianchiamo ai termini cultura, differenza, diversità la parola corpo: sembrano quattro parole d’uso quotidiano, teoricamente facili da decodificare, mentre nella pratica implicano una serie di significazioni altre, non sempre conciliabili. Il presente articolo mira a favorire la lettura, da parte dei professionisti dell’educazione e della cura, delle differenze, ponendo attenzione sulla mediazione del linguaggio analogico, inteso come facilitatore di interazioni tra Persone, ambienti, esperienze, vissuti sentiti e interiorizzati; è facile assemblare questi concetti, ma, nonostante i progressi e gli studi, non sempre si è in grado di attivare buone prassi. Lo schema corporeo ci accompagna in tutta la nostra esistenza con tappe che si caratterizzano, particolarmente, in età evolutiva, ma anche nei successivi anni di vita, adulta e terza età, perché, inevitabilmente, la nostra identità corporea dovrà ri-elaborarsi, ri-strutturarsi, ri-organizzarsi adeguatamente, in quanto il corpo ci identifica, è la nostra carta di identità che ci colloca nel mondo: siamo nel mondo. Tutti i corpi sono diversi così come le personalità, ognuno è unico nella forma mentis: tale unicità è ciò che ci caratterizza e ci contraddistingue. Per questa ragione vogliamo con determinazione focalizzarci sul grande apporto del linguaggio non verbale nella formazione/educazione/crescita/vita di tutti e di ciascuno, a prescindere dalla propria condizione fisica, psichica, sociale, culturale.

The reflections presented in this paper aim at illustrating some theoretical issues of crucial importance in the philosophical and theological debate on religious pluralism. They aim at accounting for (as opposite to 'getting the better of') religious diversity, i.e. at recognizing the condition of irreducible otherness. On that ground, the requirement of interreligious dialogue would consist, rather than in retrieving a common ground or threads, present in each religion, in bringing into play and maintaining a distance that requires to remain uncrossed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change is a threat to global ecosystems, societies and psychological well-being. As a collectively driven phenomena, I argue that it requires collective responses and action. In order to ease the trauma of awakening to, and engaging with, climate and ecological breakdown, I suggest that individuals and communities need to build safe containers and establish support to help us recognize resistance, explore defences and feel into the territory beyond the known and familiar. Using participatory research as a case study, this paper considers the often intense feelings of confusion, tension and fear that can be generated by climate disruption, and the developmental processes that can arise when these feelings are well supported and contained. My experience suggests that when people are given a safe facilitated space to identify and share their feelings and thoughts, fears and hopes, dreams and images with others, it stimulates a creative process of collective engagement and sense-making that has the potential to seed personal and social transformation and action. I suggest that Jungian practitioners in particular can play a valuable role by facilitating dialogues and inquiries which are attuned to collective symbolic processes and which incorporate the imaginal realm of story, dream, and image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article draws on Mieke Bal's reflections about the use of the documentary film as a way to explore migration cultures from a scholarly perspective, and it chronicles the production of Maka (2022), a film about Geneviève Makaping's life and thoughts on race and belonging. It focuses on the collaboration and dialogue with Makaping and director Elia Moutamid, among other members of the creative team, and it argues that collaboration and dialogue can have an impact beyond the academic context. Indeed, Maka is a hybrid work that blends theory and biographical storytelling, and it is therefore accessible to a larger audience. Documentaries involve self-reflective practices which might be useful to interrogate our position throughout the research process and to reflect upon the ethical questions which are involved in scholarly work about migration cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to consider children’s literature, and picturebooks for young readers in particular, as an educational tool that may encourage empathy, tolerance and constructive dialogue between cultures from an early age. Books for children, both through words and pictures, may be a stimulating form of art to present migrants’ experience to young readers and to promote social and cultural diversity. In particular, the study explores six picturebooks presenting the story of some migrants, investigating the strategies used by authors and illustrators to show and tell ‘different’ experiences to their audiences. The selected books have been published in Italy in the last decade and offer touching and stimulating experiences that may enhance intercultural reflection starting from literature.

This paper will reconsider the problems and challenges of children with migration background in Polish schools. The author refers to his own studies conducted as a part of the MiCreate project, supplemented by previous academic research in order to find the tools and solutions that could support the integration of migrant children, aid their wellbeing and empower them in their new environment. Legal aspects of the Polish educational system are described in the beginning in order to understand the background for the integration practices. Particular emphasis is placed on the intercultural competences of teachers and the development of the profession of intercultural assistants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and the "Africans". The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on "race". Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the "decolonisation" of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitude are provided by the author, one of the signatories of the Open Letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of the dialogue is crucial and strategic in the exhortation Evangelii gaudium and more widely in the experience of Pope Francis from the time he was living in Argentina. This appears to be even more meaningful considering that the present historical background does not foster mutual acquaintance, also from a sociological point of view. After a brief overview of the subject as it has been dealt with during the two preceding pontificates, the question of the dialogue in Evangelii gaudium, its impact and contents, is then examined; considered from a social point of view as a contribution to peace, dialogue is investigated as regards its method and its different aspects. The conclusion provides a reflection on what results to be the distinctive character of the dialogue according to Bergoglio: a style for the Church and lived faith. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La convivenza tra persone e gruppi sociali appartenenti a culture molto diverse costituisce uno dei problemi di maggior complessità delle società del nostro tempo. Tale complessità è diventata ancora più evidente in relazione al crescente flusso di immigrati che vedono nell'Europa la possibilità di sfuggire alla guerra ed anche alla fame che attanaglia i loro paesi d'origine. Si tratta di realizzare condizioni di civile convivenza e di reciprocità coniugando culture e Identità sociali, mediante processi di integrazione, talora difficili ma tuttavia indispensabili, sfuggendo alle facili e stereotipiche semplificazioni ideologiche e utilizzando, invece, gli strumenti d'analisi ed intervento che le scienze psicologiche e sociali possono fornire.

During the Spring of 2011, we studied the bird community in an area of Val Borbera, in the province of Alessandria (NW Italy). In the study area, situated at an altitude between 655 and 1700 m a.s.l., we conducted 110 points count ten minutes each in four microhabitats (agricultural areas, shrubs, forests, and prairies). In total, we surveyed 72 species, of which 51 were passerine and 21 non passerine. The most abundant species were Sylvia atricapilla, Phylloscopus collybita, Apus apus, and Turdus merula. In the agricultural areas, we detected a total of 50 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Turdus merula were the most abundant). In the shrubs, we detected 30 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Fringilla coelebs, Phylloscopus collybita, Turdus merula, Erithacus rubecula were the most abundant). In the forest areas, we found 45 species (Sylvia atricapilla, Parus major, Fringilla coelebs, Phylloscopus collybita, Turdus merula, Erithacus rubecula were the most abundant), and in the prairies, we detected 48 species (Alauda arvensis, Anthus campestris, Sylvia atricapilla, Turdus merula, Anthus trivialis, Sylvia communis were the most abundant). Compared to the other macro habitats, the agricultural areas have a significantly high abundance and richness in species, which highlights the importance of the agricultural mosaics in the Piedmont and mountain areas. The data which has been collected so far confirms the important role of this area, given the presence of some species which are rare at a regional scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalysis (including analytical psychology), once a pioneering and forward-looking movement of the early 20th century has now become a conservative backward-looking 'tradition'. After considering some of the internal problems associated with this historical change such as idealization and tribalism, some ways forward are suggested - a focus on clinical excellence as practical craft, openness to the unknown and engagement with others beyond the confines of private practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]