Episode 40: Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler, interviews Jennifer Mullan, PsyD about her book Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice (affiliate link).

It is hard to pick just a few highlights as we discussed so much in this episode, but here are a few:

6:03: Learning and unlearning concept.

9:06 Defining what decolonizing therapy is.

14:12: Challenging the language that we use.

19:50: DSM and (lack of) multicultural classes in our education.

25:00 Beginning to talk about how the history of mental health is important.

25:56: How things are beginning to shift.

27:29: Why Dr. Mullan decided to write the book

29:00 This book is for practitioners.

31:32: Discussion around a shift in mental health treatment and exploring the history and how it applies to today. In addition, how as therapists we need to metabolize the energy we take on.

38:32: Practitioners are leaving mental health and the toll the work takes on people.

50:00: Gatekeeping