In many different cultures, how we view death and dying varies tremendously. From those cultures who revere the dead and proffer a period of morning to those whereby the deceased are honoured and buried within a very narrow time frame, how we view death and the passing of those around us is very much embedded within cultural norms and systems.
Intersectionality theory in this regard takes a look at just what our experience of death actually is and considers how bereavement and the work that we do as bereavement counsellors and psychotherapists when altered can actually face and explore these differing parameters of death and dying, thereby taking the work that we have done over the past few generations in exploring our experiences of death and modernising it for the 21st century.
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Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, a PhD Supervisor at their Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. His publications include The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021), which are both published by Routledge, together with several chapters in anthologies on aspects of counselling and psychotherapy, and over 50 academic papers on everything from intersectionality in psychotherapy, to dreamwork, to Afrocentric spirituality. A leading driver in Intersectional Psychotherapy, Dr Turner is an experienced conference speaker, including numerous keynote presentations. Dr Turner has also run workshops for a wide variety of Universities, Charities, and private organisations on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy.
