Ian Puppe - Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 212 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ian Puppe is an instructor and research associate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Puppe's work focuses on the anthropology of First Nations peoples, global studies, social justice, and peace studies. As an instructor at the university, he teaches anthropology of tourism and Indigenous Studies. He also currently serves as the Canadian Anthropology Society's (CASCA) archivist, assistant editor/research associate with the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition and Co-Principal Investigator/Research Lead for the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital Archives Project (SLZHAP).
Puppe has done ethnographic work on Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, and his research and writing investigate the relations between First Nation peoples and Canadian settler-colonial society. In this interview, he explores how Western approaches to mental health impacts Indigenous peoples, and how the imposition of psychiatric treatments can lead to harmful, unintended iatrogenic effects.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello and welcome to the Madden America podcast. I'm Micah Engel, a doctoral student in psychology, University of West Georgia, and a research |
| 0:22.5 | news writer for the Mad America website. |
| 0:25.5 | Today I'm joined by Dr. Ian Puppet, an instructor and research associate in anthropology, University |
| 0:31.9 | of Western Ontario and Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:35.2 | Dr. Pappet's work focuses on the anthropology of First Nations peoples, |
| 0:40.1 | global studies, and social justice and peace studies. He has done ethnographic work on Algonquin |
| 0:46.9 | Provincial Park in Ontario, and specifically the relations between First Nation peoples and |
| 0:52.5 | Canadian settler colonial society. |
| 0:56.3 | This includes how the institution of Western psychiatric medicine affects First Nation |
| 1:00.4 | peoples that it comes into contact with. |
| 1:03.5 | Thank you for speaking with me, Dr. Pabang. |
| 1:05.5 | Great to be with you, Micah. |
| 1:07.5 | So to start, tell me a little bit about your work that you've done in the area of Indigenous |
| 1:13.6 | rights. |
| 1:14.6 | How did you come to be interested in this area? |
| 1:16.6 | I came to be interested in this in a pretty organic way, I would say. |
| 1:22.6 | I was interested in finding a research topic where I didn't feel that I was sort of interjecting myself |
| 1:30.2 | into other people's concerns unfairly, that I wasn't walking into a situation and assuming that |
| 1:36.5 | somehow I was going to make it better, and that I didn't go into a situation where I was making |
| 1:43.5 | a target out of a community, that I didn't go into a situation where I was making a target out of a community that I didn't feel |
| 1:48.0 | deserve to be treated in that way or sort of sectioned off in such an isolated way. So when I decided |
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