ABSTRACT

This article aims to provoke thinking about whiteness, culture and identity in relation to psychotherapy practice. The writing concludes with a poem that situates the author within an enriched environment that includes her ancestors and cultural heritage. Poetry illuminates hard to reach places, surfacing lived experiences that might otherwise hide in their everydayness. For the white therapist a poetic imagination might bring whiteness forth from invisibility, laying it bare for closer inspection, facilitating greater understandings and openness. The author, a white therapist and researcher, uses poetic inquiry, to foster an enhanced cultural awareness with a view to seeing self and ‘other’ afresh. The article invites the white person-centered therapist to engage with their own self-understandings to facilitate enhanced cultural engagement, sensitivity and awareness.

摘要

本文旨在激发人们对与心理治疗实践相关的白人、文化和身份的思考。作品以一首诗结尾，将作者置于包括她的祖先和文化遗产在内的丰富环境中。诗歌照亮了难以到达的地方，展现了原本可能隐藏在日常生活中的生活经历。对于白人治疗师来说，诗意的想象可能会从隐形中产生白色，将其暴露出来以供更仔细的检查，促进更大的理解和开放。作者是一位白人治疗师和研究员，他使用诗意的探究来培养增强的文化意识，以期重新审视自己和“他人”。这篇文章邀请以白人为中心的治疗师参与他们自己的自我理解，以促进加强文化参与，