Decolonising Psychotherapy: Exploring Whiteness to Disrupt Interpersonal and Systemic Racism
Autor Frances Basseten Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 2027
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041289005
ISBN-10: 1041289006
Pagini: 150
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041289006
Pagini: 150
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
- Introduction. 2. EDI is not working. 3. Race, Racism, and Whiteness. 4. Tracing the History of Psychotherapy and Counselling. 5. Exploring Whiteness - A Survey. 6. Encountering Whiteness - A Narrative Inquiry- Participant Stories and Experiences. 7. Discussion of Findings - Acknowledging the Harm of Whiteness. 8. Whiteness - Implications for Education and Action. 9. Limitations and Lessons. 10. Working with Groups. 11. Looking to the Future - Sixteen Recommendations.
Notă biografică
Dr Frances Basset is a BACP accredited psychosynthesis psychotherapist, integrative supervisor, and researcher. She holds a doctorate from the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University (2024),where her research focused on whiteness and white identity in antiracist psychotherapy education. Frances has over twenty years of clinical experience in private practice and the voluntary sector, alongside a thirty-year career in public services and the NHS. As a former academic at the University of Brighton, she developed learning modules on anti-oppressive practice during the 1990’s. Today, Frances co-facilitates local "examining whiteness" groups, white affinity spaces, and the online white aware antiracist network (WAAN), all dedicated to disrupting systemic whiteness and advancing antiracist practice.
Recenzii
'This book makes an invaluable contribution to the task of decolonising psychotherapy, by addressing the meaning and implication of Whiteness in relation to therapy training and practice. Careful crucial review of relevant theory and research, alongside reflexive analysis of the author’s extensive experience as a therapist and educator, lead to detailed practical suggestions for moving beyond divisive and corrosive racialised ways of relating, that open possibilities for building more inclusive ways of working. Highly recommended as essential reading for counsellors, psychotherapists, and mental health and well-being practitioners, at all stages of their professional careers.'
John McLeod, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, Abertay University
'This urgently needed book skilfully accomplishes the difficult task of raising painful truths in careful, research‑informed ways that invite genuine engagement. Drawing together historical analysis, rigorous empirical work, powerful practitioner narratives and reflexive insights as a white psychotherapist, it addresses anti‑Black racism in therapeutic, educational and organisational spaces with rare clarity, courage and ethical commitment. The analyses illuminate how Black and white therapists are differentially positioned within, and affectively invested in, the therapeutic process. Written with intellectual rigour and deep ethical sensitivity, it opens space for reflection rather than defensiveness and moves beyond rhetorical Equality, Diversity and Inclusion commitments to show why psychotherapy must be decolonised and how the work of decolonising can transform practice. This book offers a hopeful framework for accountability and structural change for everyone serious about ethical practice in psychotherapy and counselling education. It deserves to be a required reference on psychotherapy courses and widely read beyond.'
Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education.
'This is a courageous and deeply necessary contribution to psychotherapy. Refusing the comfort of neutrality, it invites our profession into the difficult, transformative work of confronting whiteness with honesty, humility and accountability. Essential reading for anyone committed to bringing justice to therapeutic practice.'
Kim Loliya, Director of Black Psychotherapy
'A powerful, courageous and timely contribution brings clarity, depth, and urgency to the conversation about whiteness in psychotherapy and beyond. Decolonising Psychotherapy centres on the importance of understanding whiteness not as a niche concern but as a foundational issue and a structuring force in psychotherapy, education, and institutional practice. Basset offers a rigorous and compassionate challenge to assumptions of neutrality and to the harm of whiteness, while creating space for honest reflection, accountability, and change. Her empirical research insights will be invaluable to practitioners, educators, and leaders committed to genuine anti-racist practice.'
Eugene Ellis, Director of The Black African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) and author of ‘Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide For Us All’.
'I have sat across from clients and called my silence neutrality, called my distance professionalism. This book strips away those names. A book like this arrives rarely and demands something of the reader beyond comfort. Read this book if you dare to see yourself inside the room you built…'
Salma Siddique, BPC-Scholar, TSTA-P, PhD, MSc MA(Hons), University of Highlands and Islands, (UHI-Moray College), Scotland
'This is a book for anyone who might have internalised whiteness as an invisible standard of professionalism in psychotherapy, which is probably everyone in the profession, but it is especially for white psychotherapists and educators who want to interrupt the process of perpetuating ‘white complicity’. The book meets readers where we are, acknowledging and yet asking us to engage with all the discomfort, unfamiliarity and uncertainty that goes with discovering that the ground is shifting under our feet, as ‘the relentless desire to be seen as innocent’ is exposed and undermined. The book is readable and interesting, it is packed with relevant references and further reading as well an account of Basset’s PhD research, which she robustly critiques. It also includes much brave and moving personal disclosure. It ends with two chapters about ways forward that are hugely rich resources – to be read, studied, read again – and then acted upon. '
Professor Charlotte Sills, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in independent practice; Hult Ashridge Executive Education.
'Decolonising Psychotherapy: Exploring Whiteness to Disrupt Interpersonal and Systemic Racism is a timely, courageous, and urgently needed contribution to the profession. Challenging cherished assumptions of neutrality and objectivity, it offers therapists a powerful framework for recognising how whiteness operates within clinical, educational, and organisational contexts. This book should be on the shelf of every therapist committed to ethical, reflective, and socially just practice. By combining rigorous research, personal reflexivity, and practical recommendations, it moves the conversation beyond performative diversity initiatives towards meaningful anti-racist action. Frances Basset’s analysis is both intellectually compelling and clinically relevant. The exploration of whiteness as a pervasive yet often invisible force provides essential insights into how systemic racism is reproduced within psychotherapy and how practitioners can begin to disrupt it. At a time when many organisations are questioning why equality, diversity, and inclusion efforts have failed to deliver transformative change, this book offers an honest and necessary examination of the deeper structures that sustain racialised harm. Thought-provoking, challenging, and ultimately critical, this is an important text for therapists, educators, supervisors, and leaders seeking to build a profession grounded in accountability, humility, and genuine commitment to anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice.'
Divine Charura, MBE DcounsPsych, CPsychol, AFBPsS,UKCP reg. Psych, SFHEA, UKCP Honorary Fellow, Professor of Counselling Psychology
John McLeod, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, Abertay University
'This urgently needed book skilfully accomplishes the difficult task of raising painful truths in careful, research‑informed ways that invite genuine engagement. Drawing together historical analysis, rigorous empirical work, powerful practitioner narratives and reflexive insights as a white psychotherapist, it addresses anti‑Black racism in therapeutic, educational and organisational spaces with rare clarity, courage and ethical commitment. The analyses illuminate how Black and white therapists are differentially positioned within, and affectively invested in, the therapeutic process. Written with intellectual rigour and deep ethical sensitivity, it opens space for reflection rather than defensiveness and moves beyond rhetorical Equality, Diversity and Inclusion commitments to show why psychotherapy must be decolonised and how the work of decolonising can transform practice. This book offers a hopeful framework for accountability and structural change for everyone serious about ethical practice in psychotherapy and counselling education. It deserves to be a required reference on psychotherapy courses and widely read beyond.'
Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education.
'This is a courageous and deeply necessary contribution to psychotherapy. Refusing the comfort of neutrality, it invites our profession into the difficult, transformative work of confronting whiteness with honesty, humility and accountability. Essential reading for anyone committed to bringing justice to therapeutic practice.'
Kim Loliya, Director of Black Psychotherapy
'A powerful, courageous and timely contribution brings clarity, depth, and urgency to the conversation about whiteness in psychotherapy and beyond. Decolonising Psychotherapy centres on the importance of understanding whiteness not as a niche concern but as a foundational issue and a structuring force in psychotherapy, education, and institutional practice. Basset offers a rigorous and compassionate challenge to assumptions of neutrality and to the harm of whiteness, while creating space for honest reflection, accountability, and change. Her empirical research insights will be invaluable to practitioners, educators, and leaders committed to genuine anti-racist practice.'
Eugene Ellis, Director of The Black African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) and author of ‘Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide For Us All’.
'I have sat across from clients and called my silence neutrality, called my distance professionalism. This book strips away those names. A book like this arrives rarely and demands something of the reader beyond comfort. Read this book if you dare to see yourself inside the room you built…'
Salma Siddique, BPC-Scholar, TSTA-P, PhD, MSc MA(Hons), University of Highlands and Islands, (UHI-Moray College), Scotland
'This is a book for anyone who might have internalised whiteness as an invisible standard of professionalism in psychotherapy, which is probably everyone in the profession, but it is especially for white psychotherapists and educators who want to interrupt the process of perpetuating ‘white complicity’. The book meets readers where we are, acknowledging and yet asking us to engage with all the discomfort, unfamiliarity and uncertainty that goes with discovering that the ground is shifting under our feet, as ‘the relentless desire to be seen as innocent’ is exposed and undermined. The book is readable and interesting, it is packed with relevant references and further reading as well an account of Basset’s PhD research, which she robustly critiques. It also includes much brave and moving personal disclosure. It ends with two chapters about ways forward that are hugely rich resources – to be read, studied, read again – and then acted upon. '
Professor Charlotte Sills, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in independent practice; Hult Ashridge Executive Education.
'Decolonising Psychotherapy: Exploring Whiteness to Disrupt Interpersonal and Systemic Racism is a timely, courageous, and urgently needed contribution to the profession. Challenging cherished assumptions of neutrality and objectivity, it offers therapists a powerful framework for recognising how whiteness operates within clinical, educational, and organisational contexts. This book should be on the shelf of every therapist committed to ethical, reflective, and socially just practice. By combining rigorous research, personal reflexivity, and practical recommendations, it moves the conversation beyond performative diversity initiatives towards meaningful anti-racist action. Frances Basset’s analysis is both intellectually compelling and clinically relevant. The exploration of whiteness as a pervasive yet often invisible force provides essential insights into how systemic racism is reproduced within psychotherapy and how practitioners can begin to disrupt it. At a time when many organisations are questioning why equality, diversity, and inclusion efforts have failed to deliver transformative change, this book offers an honest and necessary examination of the deeper structures that sustain racialised harm. Thought-provoking, challenging, and ultimately critical, this is an important text for therapists, educators, supervisors, and leaders seeking to build a profession grounded in accountability, humility, and genuine commitment to anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice.'
Divine Charura, MBE DcounsPsych, CPsychol, AFBPsS,UKCP reg. Psych, SFHEA, UKCP Honorary Fellow, Professor of Counselling Psychology
Descriere
This book examines how colonialism and racial privilege perpetuates systemic discrimination within psychotherapy and psychology. Drawing from five years of intensive research, this text confronts the racial bias that has long hindered meaningful progress toward racial equity in the psych professions.