The basic assumptions of psychotherapy must necessarily reflect the cultural orientations and dilemmas of the western societies, and historical periods, in which these originated. This paper considers how the racialised biases of that period, namely, the era of European domination built upon the conquest, colonisation and enslavement of non-European peoples, may linger in psychotherapeutic training and practice today. This not only limits the potential usefulness of the discipline in the multicultural populations of the west, but also risks it being read as covert neo-colonialism in the 'non-west'. In a world that ever more clearly demonstrates the human costs of prejudice psychotherapists in general, and Jungians in particular, might wish to consider how, wittingly or otherwise, they maintain prejudiced ways of thinking. This paper examines material from the author's professional and personal experience, using literature that lies outside the specifically Jungian canon, to expose how such bias might work.

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关于偏见

心理治疗的基本假设必须反映西方社会的文化取向和困境，以及它们起源的历史时期。本文考虑了那个时期的种族偏见，即建立在征服、殖民和奴役非欧洲人民基础上的欧洲统治时代，如何在今天的心理治疗培训和实践中挥之不去。这不仅限制了该学科在西方多元文化人群中的潜在用途，而且有可能将其解读为“非西方”的隐蔽新殖民主义。在一个越来越清楚地表明偏见心理治疗师，特别是荣格派的人类成本的世界中，可能希望考虑他们如何有意或无意地保持偏见的思维方式。