Margaret O’Byrne, PhD, chief of psychology at the Douglas Institute, wrote an article on Culture, Community, and Psychology in the January issue of Psychologie, a magazine produced by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec.

In this article, Dr. O’Byrne highlights that a psychologist does not need to be a “cultural expert” to cultivate a practice of “intercultural” understanding. Paradoxically, she says, it is the admission of not knowing the other, that opens a true intercultural space of openness and appreciation of the other.

Read the whole article.