Welcome to the Madden America Podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. I'm your host, Micah Ingle, joined today by Dr. Daniel Gostombide. Dr. Gostanbide is a clinical

psychologist and professor of psychology at Queens College. His clinical and academic work focuses on how,

in his words, forces like patriarchy, capitalism, and racism trickle down into the everyday

experience and well-being

of individuals and communities.

Dr. Gusten Bide has published two books, the first called A People's History of Psychoanalysis

from Freud to Liberation Psychology, and just this year, a second book called Decolonizing

Psychoanalic Technique,

Putting Freud on Phenon's couch.

Throughout Daniel's work, there is an emphasis on cultural humility

and the suffering of those who are marginalized along axes of race, class, gender, ability, and more.

In his most recent book, he offers both therapeutic clinical techniques and political strategy

for addressing these issues.

Daniel, thank you for speaking with me today.

To start off, please introduce yourself.

Who are you and how did you arrive at the kinds of liberation-oriented psychologies that you advocate?

Sure. So again, my name is Daniel Jose d'Ahtambide. I'm originally from San Juan Puerto Rico,

and then later came for college here in the U.S. mainland later in adulthood.

But I guess where it all started,

you know, to be a little tongue in cheek, it goes back to childhood, goes back to my mother,

as it was way. And the reason I say that is because my mom was the secretary of our church

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