This collection of 11 articles, intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, describe a framework for integrating psychotherapy and counseling into a science-based endeavor. It introduces the idea of thinking through culture and how it applies to psychotherapy and counseling and provides an array of therapists' accounts of their own experience and theories, including the perception that counseling and therapy are cultural work, the importance of the "felt sense" in integrative growth, integrating the world's psychologies (including the Hawaiian), feminist ecological awareness, a women's view of clinic trauma theory and therapy, hermeneutics and the moral dimensions of psychotherapy, and cultural conflict, values and relational learning. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR More Reviews and Recommendations

Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  She is the author/editor of three books and over forty other publications.  Her recent work includes an edited book, Creativity and moral vision in Psychology: Narratives of identity and commitment in a postmodern age (Sage, 1998), an article "Narrative psychology" in the Encyclopedia of psychology (American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, 1999/2000), the book chapter "Psychotherapy as an instrument of culture" in Critical issues in psychotherapy (Sage, 2001), and an article "Narratology, cultural psychology, and counseling research" (Journal of Counseling Psychology, in press).  She has published and presented on cultural psychology, qualitative research methodology, clinical teaching, reflective practice, and transformative education. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist, she has served on the editorial board of a number of journals in counseling psychology, theoretical and philosophical psychology, and community psychology. 

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