Resources & Writings

This page gathers a selection of writings, publications, and downloadable resources. It is intended as both archive and living library.

Featured Writing

A spotlight on recent and significant pieces

Practising Otherwise (Newsletter)

A slow correspondence at the intersection of healing, justice, and being human. Each issue includes field notes, embodied wisdom, cultural texts, and invitations to practice otherwise.

Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview

American Anthropologist, 2020
Salma Siddique in conversation with Virginia Dominguez on clinical anthropology, trauma, displacement, and the ethics of encounter.

Selected Publications

(Full archive available on request or via academic platforms)

Moutsou, C., & Siddique, S. (2024). Lying and truth-telling on the couch: The sense of touch in the consulting room. In Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture (Ch. 3). Routledge.
Siddique, S. (2024). Observing and Consulting in the Digital Aquarium. In Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture (Ch. 10). Routledge.
Siddique, S. (2019). Western Configurations: Ways of Being. In Psychotherapy and Culture: Critical Perspectives (Ch. 6). Routledge.
Siddique, S. (2017). Ellipses: Cultural Reflexivity in Transactional Analysis Supervision. Transactional Analysis Journal, 47(2), 152–166.
Siddique, S., & Dominguez, V. R. (2021). Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview. American Anthropologist, 123(1), 179–183.
Siddique, S. (2015). Bhaji on the Beach: Teaching Relational Ethics in India. Man in India.
Siddique, S. (2012). Storymaking: In-between anthropological enquiry and Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 14(3), 249–259.
Siddique, S. (2011). Being in-between: The relevance of ethnography and auto-ethnography for psychotherapy research. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 11(4), 310–316.

Downloadable Resources

(For students, practitioners, and colleagues — open access)

Anthropology in the Consulting Room

Western Configurations: Ways of Being

Ellipses: Cultural Reflexivity in TA Supervision

Practising Otherwise: Thresholds (Newsletter)

Themes Across the Work

The writings here reflect recurring commitments:

Trauma & Displacement — how collective wounds shape personal experience.
Ethics of Encounter — what happens in the space between therapist, supervisor, and client.
Anthropology & Psychoanalysis — exploring how culture and psyche shape one another.
Voice & Silence — working with what is said, unsaid, or suppressed.