Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

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Jennifer Mullan

Decolonizing Therapy

Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

Jennifer Mullan

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English

WW Norton & Co
22 December 2023

Psychology; Abnormal psychology; Clinical psychology; Psychotherapy

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 readers 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.

By: Jennifer Mullan
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781324019169
ISBN 10: 1324019166
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 22 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Mullan (she/her), PsyD, is educated as a clinical psychologist and is founder of Decolonizing Therapy, LLC, where she teaches her “Politicizing Your Practice” series. She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @decolonizingtherapy. Recipient of Essence magazine’s 2020 Essential Hero Award in the category of Mental Health, she lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Reviews for Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

Jennifer Mullan offers a fiery provocation to all of us-especially those called to serve as therapists, practitioners, and healers. The call is to grasp at the root that which really harms us, those oppressive practices of our training that do more to dehumanize and disconnect than we've known. This book is a remembering of the wisdom of our practices and survival. What Mullan leaves us with, somehow, is everything, each other, and the beautiful and challenging project of creating decolonized spaces of healing and repair.--Prentis Hemphill, the Embodiment Institute To receive the therapy you deserve, read Decolonizing Therapy and insist your therapist read it, too. Empowering, worldview-shattering, and necessary for immigrants and people of color.--Stephanie Foo, author of What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma