Racism & Trauma: Discussion with Danielle Hairston M.D.

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Join Dr. Danielle Hairston and Dr. Puder on a discussion of recent events. Dr. Hairston has served as the Black Psychiatrists of America Scientific Program Chair since 2016. She is also the American Psychiatric Association Black Caucus’ Early Career Representative. She is the residency director at Howard University. She has a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Hairston has also had the opportunity to speak nationally and internationally about the impact of racial trauma and culture on mental health. She is a contributing author to the recently published book, Racism and Psychiatry: Contemporary Issues and Interventions. Her interests include consultation-liaison psychiatry, resident education, minority mental health, cultural psychiatry, and collaborative care.

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0:00.0	Okay, today on this podcast, I am joined with Danielle Herston.
0:05.8	She is a psychiatrist, physician, program director, and a CNL fellowship trained psychiatrist
0:13.8	at Howard University.
0:15.8	She's one of the youngest program directors.
0:18.5	She's African American, black American, and she is an advocate.
0:24.7	She's also a part of the APA, the head of the Black Caucus.
0:29.5	I'm really excited to have you on and just create a conversation around some of the
0:35.4	recent events that have been going on.
0:38.0	I wanted to create a dialogue and kind of see from your perspective and from a psychiatrist's
0:43.5	perspective and from someone in leadership as well in psychiatry, how you're hit by
0:50.4	the recent events, and I've read a couple of the things that you've been quoted in the
0:56.3	news saying.
0:58.4	So yeah, tell me a little bit about how you feel as a black American going through this
1:06.7	as a psychiatrist with the death of George Floyd and this just really unique time that
1:13.5	we're in.
1:14.5	So it's twofold, I guess, because as a psychiatrist, you know, we go into training, we want to
1:22.3	help people cope with trauma, depression, anxiety, things like that, you know, deal with
1:30.4	post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, and but at the same time, aside from me being a psychiatrist
1:38.0	and a program director, I'm a black person.
1:41.1	Oh, my identity isn't a black person, first a black person in the United States of America
1:46.7	who was witnessing this trauma, who was witnessing vicariously the killing of people who look
1:53.4	like me and people who look like my family members.
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