When Chinese Culture Encounters Western Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy.

This paper describes the decade-long, successful experience of developing a group therapy training program for mental health professionals in China. The perspectives of two Western group therapy instructors/supervisors and of a Chinese colleague who participated broadly in the program are described. We explore our understanding of Western ideas about group therapy and how these were experienced in the Chinese context.

Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan.

Objective: To explore the psychobiographical origins of Carol Gilligan's sensitivity to the importance of voice in human psychology, an awareness that, through her foundational written work, transformed the field.

Method: Narrative inquiry and analysis.

Results: Carol Gilligan's awareness of voice began at a young age with a self-defining memory in which she learned to hold on to her own voice and experience.

The promises of qualitative inquiry.

We address the significance and implications of the formal entry of qualitative inquiry into the American Psychological Association. In our view, the discipline is enriched in new and important ways. Most prominently, the qualitative movement brings with it a pluralist orientation to knowledge and to practices of inquiry.

Eriksonian personality research and its implications for psychotherapy.

Erikson's comprehensive theory of human development has been empirically validated by personality researchers who have taken a status approach to the adult stages of the life cycle: Identity, Intimacy, Generativity, and Integrity. An understanding of these stages has implications for psychotherapy. Erikson's theory provides a descriptive language for where the individual stands currently within a psychosocial developmental context, where he/she might have gotten "stuck" in the past, and where she/he is heading in terms of developmental goals.