Joseph Gone - When Healing Looks Like Justice

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

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Mental Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Joseph Gone is a professor of both Anthropology and Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. He is a clinical and community psychologist by training, and he conducts participatory research projects with community partners in Native American communities. His projects aim to rethink traditional mental health practices and incorporate Indigenous-healing practices. He has published over seventy-five articles on his work. His work includes both the critical analysis of psychological theories and concepts, such as indigenous historical trauma, as well as original research on new mental health programs such as the Blackfeet Culture Camp for the treatment of addiction.

As an undergraduate, he became interested in psychology because the field approaches the question of human experience from so many diverse vantage points -- taking up questions from the workings of the brain to what it means to be human. His love for ideas and his desire to contribute to the American Indian communities (as a member of Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribal nation) led him to get a doctorate in clinical psychology. However, his experience is not simply that of a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist who addresses mental health at the individual level -- because sometimes, he explains, the remedies that help people "look less like healing and more like justice."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:14.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mad in America podcast. I am Ayur Didhar, your host for today.
0:22.8	I am an instructor of psychology at the University of West Georgia and a science news writer for the Mad in America website. A lot has been
0:28.8	going on in the world of mental health in the past month or so. Marcy Weber was given conditional
0:34.1	discharge after being detained in a psychiatric facility.
0:42.6	Weber had killed her daughter during a psychotic episode that erupted while she was on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs. Another review published in the British Medical Journal found evidence
0:48.1	of substantial spin in the abstracts of leading psychology and psychiatry journals. And in a
0:53.6	recent study in Australia,
0:55.0	researchers found that sexual assault survivors
0:58.0	reported higher rates of depression and PTSD
1:01.0	when their disclosure was met with disbelief or ignored.
1:05.0	You can read these and a lot more on the Madden America website.
1:08.0	Today we have with us, Dr. Joseph Khan. Dr. Gahn is a professor in the
1:13.8	Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University. He has published
1:19.5	over 75 articles and he studies the intersection of culture, colonialism, and well-being in the
1:26.1	indigenous communities.
1:32.7	Dr. Gahn is also a peacetime veteran of the U.S. Army and recently published a review detailing the complexity in the concept of indigenous historical trauma.
1:37.3	Dr. Gond, welcome to Mad in America.
1:39.1	Thank you. It's a real pleasure to join you.
1:41.2	So let's dive in. My first question to you is, could you tell us a little bit
1:46.6	about how you became interested or when you became interested in the problems that like the
1:51.3	American Indian community? Was there an origin story of some sort? Well, when I was an undergraduate,
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