In this issue
Features
Rebuilding broken communities (free article)
Catherine Jackson asks what kind of聽psychological support is most helpful to聽war-damaged and displaced communities.
When cultures collide
Ieehyok Woo explores cultural dissonance聽in the counselling relationship.
Out from the underground
Nikola Atanassov describes the role of聽psychotherapy in helping Bulgaria鈥檚 people聽make the transition to democracy.
Everyone is welcome here
Jeffrey Po reports on the all-inclusive聽Association for Psychotherapists and聽Counsellors in Singapore.
A hunger for self-development
Nicola Banning finds a growing demand聽for counselling beyond Pakistan鈥檚 affluent聽middle classes.
Awakening India's psyche
Globalisation and a rapidly changing social聽support structure has raised public awareness聽in India of the benefits of counselling, as Tony聽Sam George and Elizabeth Thomas report.
Regulars
In practice
Sara Hitchens: Stoicism in Tokyo
In the client's chair
Dimitra: Starting a new chapter
In training
Archana Ramanathan: Learning to honour my client
The researcher
Lynne Angus: The global researcher
How I became a therapist
Olga Lukina
The interview
Courtland Lee: We are citizens of the world
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From the chair
Amanda Hawkins: Therapy in cyberspace
Additional online content
In conversation
Colin Feltham interviews Nikola Atanassov, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia and a psychoanalyst, about the challenges facing the fledgling psychotherapy profession in Bulgaria.
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Editorial
We know so little about the development聽of counselling and psychotherapy around聽the world so we have devoted this issue聽to emerging counselling internationally.聽Huge credit must go to Jacqui Gray, our聽international editor, who has worked so聽hard seeking out counsellors and academics聽in countries from India to Russia and聽encouraging them to write for us. What is聽clear is that in many countries there is a great聽hunger for knowledge about counselling and聽for training.
For example, in Pakistan awareness about聽therapy is growing as society becomes more聽urban and industrialised; there is a growing聽appetite for self-development but a lack of聽qualified practitioners. Pakistanis are looking聽to the UK and the US for training and in turn聽becoming trainers themselves. There are聽many cultural challenges for them to negotiate,聽not least that in Pakistan鈥檚 collectivist culture聽saying 鈥業t鈥檚 my life鈥� is socially unacceptable.
Counselling and psychotherapy were聽banned in Communist regimes but existed聽as underground movements in many Soviet聽bloc countries. Nikola Atanassov, himself聽a young 鈥榰nderground鈥� practitioner in the聽1970s, writes about the growth of therapy聽in post-Communist Bulgaria and about how聽far the profession still needs to develop.
South Korea has one of the highest suicide聽rates in the world, and leehyok Woo gives聽us a fascinating insight into its culture. He聽explains how students who come to study in聽the UK, for example, can feel emotionally lost,聽their emotional coping mechanisms being so聽different from those in the West and so easily聽misunderstood. The world is shrinking as a聽result of online technology, but the cultural聽gaps between people may be just as great聽and potentially problematic. As 香港六合彩精准资料 Chair聽Amanda Hawkins writes in her column, there聽is much that we as a profession can share at an聽international level and much that we can learn.
Sarah Browne
Editor