Kareem – författare

There are many problems in working psychotherapeutically across cultures, with numerous examples of failure to understand cultural issues. For example, the ignorance of traditional family structures can lead to major diagnostic and therapeutic errors. These errors include potentially disastrous transference relationship interpretations, the confounding of traditional beliefs with psychiatric symptoms, and a lack of awareness of differences in presenting symptomology. This book explains the theories and techniques of intercultural therapy. The second edition retains many of the ideas and practices developed in the first edition, but has been updated throughout to include the latest literature, and includes a new introductory chapter. A range of different views on intercultural therapy are given by a group of specialists who have pioneered this developing area.The late Jafar Kareem BSc was a member of the British Association of Psychotherapists, a member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy, and Founder and Clinical Director of Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre.Roland Littlewood BSc, MB, DPhil, FRCPsych, is Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology, University College London, Joint Director of the UCL Centre for Medical Anthropology, Consultant Psychiatrist, Middlesex Hospital, and Medical Advisor, Nafsiyat.

This is a story about a kid growing up doing the turbulent times in the late fifties and the sixties. He had a good family and a chance to become whatever he wanted, but he chose to want to be a gangster. This is about how his choices cost him a life of prison and a near-death experience. He lived the life of a gangster his entire life until all the ones close to him began to die. Even his prized processions began to fade, and he was at his end. And just when he decided to change his ways, his whole world caved in.

Korey Taylor, aka “Killa Korey” and his ace, Hammer, were sentenced to serve two decades in federal prison, but after an unexpected change in the crack cocaine sentencing laws, Korey is released. Now he’s on his way home to Charlotte, North Carolina.Like Hammer, Korey is a thug with a violent nature, nothing to joke around with in the cold streets. However, while serving his time, Korey took classes that he hoped would help him become someone other than a drug dealer. Armed with a new way of thinking and a deep desire to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Korey wants to wave good-bye to the game.When he immediately links back up with Hammer, who was released months before him, Korey finds his most sincere intent to go straight challenged. He is reminded of their brotherhood and the street oath that he and Hammer vowed to never go back on. Korey is left with a serious decision to make in their world, where disloyalty is an unpardonable fault. Partnerz in Crime is a high-powered street tale of unbreakable love and loyalty.

In the streets, where thuggin’ and criminal activity are certainly the norm, damn near anything goes, and Derrick Bellamy is no exception. In his quest to get his mother and little brother out of the hood, he chooses to hustle coke. To assist Derrick, his girlfriend decides to introduce him to Fat Jerome, a big-timer in the drug game. But when she reveals a previous dark encounter between her and Fat Jerome, Derrick becomes furious and contemplates the unthinkable. While Derrick is busy with street matters, he doesn’t take into consideration how much his actions are affecting his family. Neither is he focused enough to do anything about it—that is, until he has an encounter with the law and his outlook on life begins to change.Follow Derrick and a cast of characters from the hood as they wreak havoc on unsuspecting individuals, all in the name of getting what they desire, whether right or wrong. No one can convince them to change their ways. Like it or not, that’s just the way it is with them.