David Walker, PhD, Author at Mad In America

David Walker, PhD

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Speaking in the Borrowed Language: David Walker, PhD, is a Missouri Cherokee descendent, psychologist, writer, and musician. He consults with the Yakama Indian Nation, and writes about Western mental health system complicity in the oppression of indigenous people. His website is www.davidedwardwalker.com.

The American Indian Youth Suicide Epidemic: Mental Health Professionals as Superheroes

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Horse-Stealing Mania: The Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians

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Quantitative Mental Health & Oppression, Part Two: The Case of the ‘American Indian’

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How Quantitative Mental Health Turns Oppression Into “Depression”

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The Quantum Mechanics of Tessa’s Dance & Signal Peak

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The Indian Health Service’s Psychiatric Drug Habit & the ‘Heavy Influence of Biomedical Models’

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The Community Psychologist as Covert Operative in the Indian Health Service

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My Loss of Cultural Competence Among the Nacirema-Orue

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Detecting the True ‘Culture’ of Indian Health Service Mental Health Programs

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WHOMHP!

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David Walker, PhD – Short Bio

September 14, 2014