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B ryant-Davis and Tummala-Narra (2017) noted that intersecting forms of oppression, including racism, sexism, xenophobia, and classism, increase the risk for human trafficking and create barriers to service access in the aftermath of escape. The lived experience of human trafficking is often contextualized by intersectionality, and specifically being a member of multiple marginalized groups, for example, women of color (Oleksy, 2011). Intersectional feminist approaches to theory, practice, and activism aimed at combatting human trafficking also require fighting ethnic hatred, racism, sexism, additional forms of violence against women, educational segregation, poverty, and extreme social exclusion (Schultz, 2012). Crawford (2017) called for an intersectional feminist approach to addressing sex trafficking, which disproportionately affects women; to effectively counter sex trafficking, researchers and practitioners must explore the ways gender intersects with other systems of social dominance, such as caste, tribe, and ethnicity. Intersectional feminist practice, also known as multicultural feminist therapy, centers the experience of the marginalized; resists oppression; celebrates cultural and individual strengths; and pursues the well-being, growth, healing, and thriving of culturally marginalized women (Bryant-Davis & Comas-Díaz, 2016).This chapter provides an overview of human trafficking by exploring the psychosocial realities of traffickers and victims. To contextualize trafficking from the perspective of intersectional feminism, we discuss the connection between racism and sexism as they impact human trafficking. With an

Culturally focused research has gained momentum in many disciplines, including psychology. However, much of this research fails to pay attention to the unconscious dynamics that underlie the study of culture and culturally influenced human beings. Such dynamics may be especially significant when issues of marginalization and oppression are present. Therefore, this paper seeks to contribute a framework for understanding cultural dynamics, especially unconscious cultural dynamics, within depth psychological qualitative research influenced by Jungian and post-Jungian scholarship. Inquiry that is approached with a commitment to making the unconscious conscious seeks to empower and liberate not only the subject/object studied but also the researchers themselves. Following a brief review of multiculturalism in the context of analytically informed psychology, this paper offers several case examples that focus on researchers' integration of awareness of the cultural unconscious in their study of cultural beings and topics.

Human trafficking is practiced in many countries throughout the world, and every year millions of women and children are bought, sold, and traded into commercial sexual and labor‐based slavery. Of these countries, India is one of the largest portals and destination grounds for the trafficking and sexual enslavement of women and children. Victims of trafficking live under the daily threat of their own torture, abuse, and death, and in most cases even the torture and murder of their families, should they try to escape their captors. It is the immeasurable fear used to manipulate these women and children that eclipses the abject poverty impelling their exile into the darkest shadows of human existence. Within this context, it becomes important to consider how healing which moves towards restoring humanity, authentic voice, and soul to those who have been stripped and silenced in this regard can begin. In my opinion, the realm of depth psychology is unique in its ability to hold the tension between substance and shadow as it impacts oppressed populations and the socio‐cultural philosophies that have perpetuated silence and margin. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.