title: Becoming a multicultural psychotherapist: the confluence of culture, ethnicity, and gender.
abstract: A Latina psychotherapist relates the influences of culture, ethnicity, gender, and class in her process of becoming a psychotherapist. Struggling with physical impediment, cultural translocation, racism, sexism, and their interaction, she has grounded her identity as a wounded healer. The pervasive role of history and sociopolitics in her life has contributed to her articulation of psychotherapy's role in liberation.
authors.affiliation: Transcultural Mental Health Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA. cultura@starpower.net
authors.forename: Lillian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Comas-Díaz
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005610:Freedom; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States