What is it about?
As I try to “countermap” (Wood, 2010) urban biases on power, space, and time and explore some consequences of the frame, selfdisclosure, ethics, and interpretations, I address topics that include urban valuing of specialized expertise over wisdom, urban disconnection from weather and distance, urban colonizing behavior, the dumping of incompetent professionals into rural areas, and the urban sense of entitlement to anonymity. In theorizing an urban “omphalos syndrome” and the geographical narcissism that goes with it, my aim is to validate rural experience and foster rural empowerment in the field of psychotherapy.
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Why is it important?
In theorizing an urban “omphalos syndrome” and the geographical narcissism that goes with it, my aim is to validate rural experience and foster rural empowerment in the field of psychotherapy.
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This paper felt so important to write! Although some have conceptualized rural status as a diversity issue, the field has not addressed urbanity as a privilege. Instead, it often describes the rural world as an exception to the urban rule with specific challenges such as poor access to mental health care, low rates of education, and high rates ofsuicide, or poverty and unemployment. My perspective is the opposite. I try to address the urban privilege and the urban arrogance.
Clinical Psychologist Malin Fors
Finnmark Hospital Trust
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This page is a summary of: Geographical narcissism in psychotherapy: Countermapping urban assumptions about power, space, and time., Psychoanalytic Psychology, May 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pap0000179.
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