Help or Hindrance? Supremacy or Access? Therapy Across Race, Culture and Religion in an Unequal Society
Guest Speaker: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Respondent: Julian Lousada, Racce Equality and Diversity Lead, Tavistock Clinic
Chair: Frank Lowe, Consultant Social Worker and Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic
Monday 28 January 2008 (6 - 8pm)
Thinking Space is a monthly learning forum at the Tavistock Clinic, which explores issues of race and culture in therapy/mental health.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a journalist who has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Mail and is a regular columnist in The Independent and London's Evening Standard. She is also a radio and television broadcaster, international public speaker and author of several books. These include No Place Like Home, Who Do We Think We Are? and Mixed Feelings, a book on mixed race Britons, all well received by critics. She has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research which published True Colours, on the role of government on racial attitudes. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. Her pamphlet, After Multiculturalism, re-assessing the multicultural ideology in Britain was the first critical examination of multiculturalism by a social democrat. In June 1999, she received an honorary degree from the Open University for her contributions to social justice. She is a Vice President of the United Nations Association, UK, a special ambassador for the Samaritans and is the President of the Institute of Family Therapy.
Fee: £10 (£5 Trust Staff and students)
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
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Further information:
Vicky Harrison
Tel: 020 8938 2548
Fax: 020 7447 3837
events@tavi-port.org
