Counting black sheep: Contextualizing therapeutic relations

Psychodynamic Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-73

  Walker, Kanta ^a   Burman, Erica ^a   Gowrisunkur, Jaya ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black therapists; Class and sexual identities; Gender; Intersections between 'race'; Mixed parentage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NEGRO; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0038393533     PISSN: 14753634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13533330110119303     Document Type: Article

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