Psychoanalytic theory and cultural competence in psychotherapy.
It is important to situate this book in its particular social, historical, and political context. I have written this book during a time of war, terrorist attacks, intense national debate concerning immigration policy and same sex marriage, ongoing racial profiling and violence and gender based physical and sexual violence, and a growing income gap between the wealthy and the poor. This is also a time in the united States when children and adolescents are exposed either directly or indirectly to alarming rates of school and community violence and when many young women and men assume that the word "feminist" refers to women who "hate" men. The president of the united States is a biracial, African American and White man, and yet we continue to witness injustice around racial lines. On a global scale, we are witnessing an unprecedented rate of internal and external displacement (due to war, poverty, and ethnic and religious conflicts) human trafficking, and violence against women and girls. There is tremendous innovation in information technology, which