Decolonizing therapy : oppression, historical trauma, and politicizing your practice / Jennifer Mullan, PsyD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullan, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Frances Houston Medical Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Political aspects.

Psychotherapy.

Discrimination in mental health services.

Decolonization.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Culturally Competent Care.

Medical Subjects:

Psychotherapy--methods.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Culturally Competent Care.

Physical Description:

xvi, 458 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton, [2023]

Summary:

"To better understand the mental health oppression and institutional violence that exists today, we must become familiar with the root of disembodiment from our histories, homelands, and healing practices. Decolonizing Therapy is a love letter and a call to action for helpers, therapists, and the space-holders struggling inside the mental health industrial complex. Colonization cuts us off from our histories, our bodies, one another, and the land. It separates us from home. It's time to return to the root. Decolonizing Therapy invites you to: remember and reckon with your individual and collective past; reclaim and restore ancient medicine; reconnect with what's lost and rebuild a new model of mental health; repair harm and reimagine healing. Ignoring collective global trauma makes delivering effective therapy impossible; not knowing how to interrogate privilege (as practitioner, client, or both) makes healing elusive; and shying away from understanding how we as professionals may be participating in oppression is irresponsible. This work is not for the faint of heart. It's for the brave of heart. The fiercely loving. Those who are unwilling to settle for anything less than healing and liberation for all. Decolonizing Therapy shines a bright and loving light on the core wound of colonialism so that real healing can begin."--front flap.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction . Part 1. The roots : where it began: 1. Your (our) therapy is colonial

2. Emotional-decolonial work

3. From lobotomies to liberation

4. Diagnostic enslavement.

Part 2. The trunk : where we are: 5. From historical trauma to healing the collective soul wound

6. Intergenerational trauma transmission : ancestral trauma and wisdom exist together within us

7. Ancestral roots in mental health "from root to bone"

8. Collective grief and sacred rage as expressions of colonization.

Part 3. The leaves : growing a decolonial future: 9. From the inside out : energetic boundaries

10. Politicizing your practice (is wow we begin to decolonize therapy)

Conclusion: Call to action.

Practictioner resources

Glossary : terms to chew on

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-433) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Houston Medical Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1324019166

9781324019169

OCLC:

1346293124

Publisher Number:

99995264391