Education and therapy on cultural borders

for social and critical practices in human services

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Keywords:

psychiatry, psychology, intercultural, interethnic

Abstract

If we understand boundaries between cultures as cultural events, fluid and open to change through reconstruction in interaction, the cultural borderlands we inhabit become a fertile ground for a reflexive therapy. In such a process the ability to see ourselves through the others incorporates the cross-cultural ethnic-social dimensions we are made of, not as a mere context for a supposedly universal and abstract form of therapy, but as a necessary text of a situated and embodied version of it. Such a therapy has also a critical role to play in times that invite to live unexamined lives and to reduce social services to blindly ideological and bureaucratized forms of social engineering.

 

* First published in issue no. 11 of 1998 of Nova Perspectiva Sistêmica Journal.

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Author Biographies

Marcelo Pakman, Médico psiquiatra em Amherst, Massachusetts

Médico psiquiatra em Amherst, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, psicoterapeuta, terapeuta familiar, conferencista, autor.

Eloisa Vidal Rosas, Instituto Noos, São Paulo/SP

Psicóloga clínica, terapeuta individual, de família e casal, mestra em Comunicação (ECO/UFRJ), facilitadora de processos coletivos. Professora e supervisora em Terapia de Família desde 1987. Membro do corpo docente da Formação em Terapia de Família e Casal do ISBL, Londrina, Paraná, desde 2003. Professora convidada do curso de Formação em Terapia de Família e Casal em Fortaleza, desde 2013. Supervisora e professora do curso de Terapia de Família do Instituto Noos até 2017. Professora convidada do curso Formação em Terapia de Família do Núcleo Contemporâneo, Niterói.

Published

2023-04-29

How to Cite

Pakman, M., & Rosas, E. V. (2023). Education and therapy on cultural borders: for social and critical practices in human services. Nova Perspectiva Sistêmica, 31(74), 6–17. Retrieved from https://revistanps.com.br/nps/article/view/730

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