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  • Decolonizing Therapy

  • Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
  • By: Jennifer Mullan PsyD
  • Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones
  • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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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
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Essential reading for mental health professionals

Essential reading for all mental health professionals. Especially those who work with historically targeted groups of people.

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Beautiful Foundation to Build on!

Absolutely transformative and should be read be all MHP’s, period! This work I believe should be a pre-requisite @ every institutional setting helpers are trained.

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Saving my life.

I am a therapist working through my own traumas and have been working with my fellow humans within systems for 10 years now. Jennifer articulates everything and it is validating to integrating my parts into a whole, rehumanizing myself, healing on deeper levels regardless of barriers on all levels of my life. This is the first time I’ve felt no shame in grieving what I couldn’t put words to.

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This book is a game changer!

Dr. Jenn Mullan is a rock star! She has informed us in very deep levels. She is a trailblazer while honoring her ancestors. This is a clear call to action internally and community based. Thank you Dr. Jenn for being you and sharing your old soul wisdom with us. We need it.

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Decolonizing for Clincians

Well written, thoughtful, honest, candid and relevant resource for clinicians ready and/or desiring to go against the status quo. Helps to provide context and understanding of the mental health industrial complex. The why and how we got to where we are today.

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The research

It makes you feel seen
Should be a requirement for mental health workers pre graduation

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Necessary for us to read!

This was very affirming and so very helpful to read and take forward in my everyday practice.

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The content is great and the book is well written. BUT…

In my opinion, the book is great, but the narration is unbelievably robotic and sounds more like the book is being read by AI than a human being. I had to stop listening before I was halfway through the first chapter. I’ve read other books with the same narrator and enjoyed them, but I don’t think she was the right choice for this particular book. I bought the book and will read it instead. I think if you’re going to narrate a book about the broader therapeutic space, a more emotive and dynamic approach is necessary, regardless of the specific topic. Just my two cents.

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