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BRAND X

Orphaned transracial international ungrateful insurgent Class Bastard.
Dec 21 '12
“Most [mental health] theorists continue to be steeped in Euro-Western ideology and assert that mental illness can be operationally defined in terms of failure to adjust to dominate conceptions of proper behavior… Given this perspective, mental well-being for the oppressed can be operationally defined in terms of some of those very behavioral tendencies that are believed to be maladaptive by those who oppress.”
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The Racial Disparities in Diagnosing and Treating Mental Health Disorders

Clinical psych methodology & theory are so profoundly Eurocentric that any decolonization would entail sea changes rendering current paradigms (much less terminology) unrecognizable.

62 notes Tags: mental illness eurocentrism white supremacy boom racism oppression decolonize

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