Book Reviews: Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments Ababio, Baffour and Littlewood, Roland (eds).

Background In 1983, responding to an increasingly multi-racial and multi-cultural matrix in Britain which highlighted inadequate psychodynamic psychotherapeutic provisions for minority groups, Nafsiyat was set up by Jaffar Kareem. The three-syllable name ‘Nafsiyat’, Kareem explained, is made up of three ancient languages that ‘stand for MIND, BODY and SOUL’ (1992: 14). In 1992, Kareem co-edited Intercultural Therapy: Themes, Interpretations and Practice (2019), as a way of exemplifying a culturally sensitive, anti-racist, anti-colonial and holistic approach that paid attention to the personal histories of minority ethnics, including ancestral inheritances of traditions and traumas. It also challenged the assumption of distress always being located in the individual alone.