From Psycho-Analysis to Culture-Analysis

A Within-Culture Psychotherapy

This book confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which the therapist analyses the inconsistencies within the client's culture, before applying psychoanalysis, in which the analyst analyses the intra-psychic conflicts.

It also corresponds to the two sides of the brain, the left hemisphere being more
analytical, linguistic, sequential, and logical, and the right one more visual, global
, metaphorical, and creative (Ley & Freeman, 1984; Davidson & Kenneth, 1998; ...