With the compendium Caught in Society, psychologist Dileta Fernandes Sequeira presents one of the few works that deals with the psychological consequences of everyday racist violence in Germany.
Fernandes Sequeira’s volume is aimed primarily at psychologists and therapists and explores the entanglement of all members of society in a racist system.
Numerous examples are used to show what the traumatizing consequences of racial violence mean for the field of psychology.
The author develops approaches to solutions that aim equally at empowering those affected and at raising the awareness of society as a whole.
“People who experience racism experience it through people on whom they depend in everyday life. Those affected cannot escape this – not even within the framework of the psychological institutions in which they seek help. A therapeutic or pedagogical practice critical of racism must therefore develop its own strategies for dealing with discriminatory structures and individual experiences of racism.” Book description of the publisher
Dileta Fernandes Sequeira 2015: Caught in Society – Everyday Racism in Germany. Thinking and acting critically of racism in psychology. Marburg: Tectum.
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