Bridging East-West Psychology and Counselling Exploring the Work of Pittu Laungani

includes index and biblioraphy

PART ONE Building Multiple Cultural Bridges 1. Building Multicultural Counselling Bridges: The Holy Grail or a Poisoned Chalice 3 Pittu Laungani 2. The Reciprocal Gaze: Pittu Laungani`s Musings about Culture and Stress 19 Amrita Narayanan 3. Traditional Healing and Spirituality: Pittu Laungani Building Bridges in Counselling 32 Roy Moodley 4. Dancing with the Master: An Interview with Pittu Laungani 45 Lana Stermac PART TWO Playing Amongst the Pillars of East-West Psychology 5. Cross-cultural Psychology: A Handmaiden to Mainstream Western Psychology 63 Pittu Laungani 6. Unresolved Issues in Philosophy and Psychology:Implications for Therapy 77 Pittu Laungani 7. Playing Amidst the Pillars: Pittu Laungani and Yogic Psychology 96 Amrita Narayanan 8. South Asian Traditional Healing in Counselling: Laungani`s Search for a Transcultural Approach 114 Aanchal Rai and Roy Moodley 9. East-West Journey in Counselling Psychology: An Interview with Pittu Laungani Roy Moodley PART THREE Towards Wisdom in the Practice of Counselling and Therapy 10. Transcending the Boundaries of Counselling: Pittu Laungani as Master Counsellor Juris G. Draguns 11. Caste, Class and Culture: A Case Study 156 Pittu Laungani 12. Pittu Laungani, a Bicultural Psychologist: Commentary on `Caste, Class and Culture` 169 Alan Roland 13. Solitude of Unbearable Shame: An Analysis of Two Case Studies by Pittu Laungani 179 Sabar Rustomjee 14. Becoming a Cultural Chameleon: Pittu Laungani, Western Counsellors and Multicultural Clients 190 William West PART FOUR Multicultural Transitions and Therapeutic Relationships 15. Counselling and Therapy in a Multicultural Setting Pittu Laungani 16. Migration, Cultural Values and the Medical Model: Pittu Laungani and Psychotherapy Ruth M. Lijtmaer 17. Tortoises and Turtles: Pittu Laungani, Cultural Transitions and Therapeutic Relationships Fevronia Christodoulidi and Colin Lago 18. Transcending East/West Boundaries: Pittu Laungani and Cross-cultural Counselling Maya Hammer and Waseem Alladin 19. Pittu Laungani, Multicultural Humanism and Eclectic Psychotherapy Sandra E.S. Neil 20. Religious Rites and Rituals in Death and Bereavement: An Indian Experience Pittu Laungani PART FIVE Personal Reflections of Friends and Colleagues o Antoinette D. Thomas o Ann R. Laungani o Stephen Palmer o Waseem Alladin o Uwe P. Gielen o Richard de Zoysa o Nicolo Pipitone