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Decolonizing Therapy

Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

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Decolonizing Therapy

By: Jennifer Mullan PsyD
Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
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A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens.

An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is—and always has been—inherently political. 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. Only then will listeners see how colonial, historical, and intergenerational legacies have always played a role in the treatment of mental health.

This book is the emotional companion and guide to decolonization. It is an invitation for Eurocentrically trained clinicians to acknowledge privileged and oppressed parts while relearning what we thought we knew. Ignoring collective global trauma makes delivering effective therapy impossible; not knowing how to interrogate privilege (as a therapist, client, or both) makes healing elusive; and shying away from understanding how we as professionals may be participating in oppression is irresponsible.

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©2023 Jennifer Mullan (P)2024 Tantor
Mental Health Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Emotions

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A incredibly important book for thinking about genuine progress and social justice in therapeutic practice. Dr Mullan writes with authority and passion from a place of deep connection and solidarity. Difficult to get through at times, often confronting and radically loving, this book is essential reading/listening for anyone hoping to work towards a truly healing, equitable and loving practice.

Unfortunately for me the reader spoke with too much drama, unnecessarily emphatic and intense when the content already carries enough intensity itself. This made it difficult to listen to, often giving the tone of a scintillating drama or a scathing account. As someone deeply and personally affected but many of the tough topics discussed here, it unnecessary added to the inherent pain of exploring old and familiar traumas. In the I decided to buy the Kindle and read to myself.

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As a British trained counsellor, now in New Zealand and working with multicultural clients, this book is not only useful for reflective practice but necessary for integrating into the work within multicultural communities around a the world, encouraging to unlearn the ‘norms’ in how the human conditioning shows up in the therapeutic space and to apply critical thinking to our practice.
Am incredibly grateful to have been recommended this book, and I cannot recommend it enough.

Necessary read for reflective practice

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