“As a mental health professional with over 10 years in the field and as a psychiatric survivor more recently, this podcast has been so important to hear. To give some perspective on the negative review from September, I have to say that holding a doctoral degree in microbiology and understanding abolition, social justice, and other current social movements as well having lived experience, are far more important to this conversation than a mental health degree. Mental health degrees in America are generally rooted in capitalist mental health and rarely teach accurate and/or new scientific theory even though they push the biopsychosocial model and the chemical imbalance theory. Most clinicians rely on this information taught in school, “public knowledge” about “chemical imbalances,” and the DSM, never realizing that the science might not add up or that diagnoses are social conventions derived from white supremacist, American, patriarchal (and goes without saying, capitalist) values. As far as I can tell, a critical and/or historical view of the field and the DSM are rarely taught. So yes, they are qualified and no a mental health professional would not be more qualified to discuss this. Even the thoughtful, social justice oriented clinicians are not always aware of the issues at hand because nobody has time to think critically in this overworked, underpaid field.”
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United States of America ·
10/21/22