Justin Karter - Exploring the Fault Lines in Mental Health Discourse

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Justin Karter is a staff psychologist at Boston College University Counseling Services. He is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he completed his dissertation research on the experiences of psychosocial disability activists in the Global South.

He has served as the editor of the research news section of the Mad in America website since 2015. In addition, he has held executive board positions with the Society for Humanistic Psychology and the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Despite being a recent graduate and early career psychologist, he has published over 25 papers and textbook chapters on topics in critical psychology, critical psychiatry, and philosophy of psychology.

While he has often been the interviewer for our MIA podcasts, today, we get to turn the mic around and ask him some questions. In doing so, we discuss his journey into the field and what he has learned through his work with MIA, research in critical psychiatry and psychology, and his practice as a therapist.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:13.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Mad in America.
0:16.5	This is your host, Ayyrededhar.
0:18.5	I am an assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia
0:22.3	and a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America.
0:25.4	Our guest today, we have with us Mad in America's very own Justin Carter.
0:30.7	Our lead news editor, who recently became Dr. Justin Carter,
0:34.5	after completing his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of
0:38.6	Massachusetts, Boston. He's currently serving there as a staff psychologist, and I think has a very
0:44.6	humanistic and relational orientation in his clinical work. Regular readers and listeners would be
0:51.5	well aware of his work here at MIA. So Justin, our Dr. Carter for today,
0:57.2	has degrees in both journalism and psychology, which I think at least partly gives him his critical
1:02.9	lens on psychology. So even though early in his career, he has a long list of publications,
1:09.9	something I'm very envious of,
1:11.4	over 25 of them already.
1:14.2	And Dr. Carter and I met at a conference where he headed and organized actually, our whole
1:19.8	segment and presented an important piece of writing critiquing the global mental health
1:24.6	movement.
1:25.6	I knew then we would be friends. His own research is on
1:29.1	experiences of psychosocial disability in the global south. And we will talk about that and more.
1:35.3	Dr. Cato, welcome to Matt in America. Oh, it's fun to be here. Thanks for having me on the other side
1:40.9	of the mic this time. All right. So let's jump in. The first question is kind of on a personal note, right?
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