Tag: historical trauma

The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview...

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.

“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and...

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Psychologist and existential thinker Brent Robbins reflects on a lifetime of work, the limits of psychiatric diagnosis, and what facing mortality has taught him about joy and human connection.

Addressing the Roots of Racial Trauma: An Interview with Psychologist Lillian...

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MIA’s Hannah Emerson interviews Comas-Díaz on the need for culturally competent care in a medicalized and individualistic society.

The Complexity of the Indigenous Historical Trauma Concept

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Researchers explore how the processes of colonization may impact the well-being of indigenous populations today.

“The Miseducation of Frank Waln”

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Studies of modern Native Americans have shown that “historical trauma,” the name that social workers give to the perception of historical loss passed down through...