Richard Katz || Honoring the Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today it’s an honor to have Richard Katz on the podcast. Dr. Katz received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught there for twenty years. The author of several books, he has spent time over the past 50 years living and working with Indigenous peoples in Africa, India, the Pacific, and the Americas. He is professor emeritus at the First Nations University of Canada and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His latest book is Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples. Author royalties will be given back to the Indigenous elders whose teachings made the book possible. In this episode we discuss: How being an outsider allows you to see the limitations of the world you are living in Richard’s friendship with Abraham Maslow Setting the record straight: The real influence of the Blackfeet Nation on Maslow’s theory of self-actualization How modern day psychology has oppressed the verbal-experimental paradigm The limitations of modern measurement The tension between the scientific method and the narrative approach to psychology Are all modes of the scientific process valid? How indigenous people are misunderstood, under-respected, and under-appreciated What the field of psychology could be if it incorporated indigenous ways of being Link Kalahari People’s Fund --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:13.0	I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman,
0:15.0	and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest
0:18.0	who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding
0:20.0	of yourself, others, and the world we live in. Hopefully we'll also provide a
0:24.7	glimpse into human possibility. Thanks have Richard Katz on the podcast. Dr Katz received his
0:39.3	PhD from Harvard University and taught there for 20 years.
0:43.2	The author of several books, he has spent time over the past 50 years living and working with
0:47.4	indigenous peoples in Africa, India, the Pacific, and the Americas.
0:52.4	He is Professor Emeritus at the First Nations University of Canada,
0:56.4	and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Saschkoshkowan.
1:01.1	Oh my God, how do you pronounce that? He lives in Saschatoon, sash, sash, sashtak, sashkak, sashkhaqhakjashkowatwan. Okay, now tell me how to pronounce it.
1:11.3	Siskat it. Saskatchewan.
1:12.7	Saskatchewan.
1:13.7	Saskatchewan. It's going and it means gently flowing river.
1:18.0	Well, look, you're going to teach me and our listeners a lot today
1:22.4	about indigenous populations and lots of nuggets just like that,
1:27.7	you know how to properly pronounce lots of things because as I'm reading your book I come across
1:32.0	a lot of things I noted to myself there's no way in the world I'm going to be able to pronounce that correctly.
1:37.0	Yeah, you know it's an interesting point, eh Scott, because part of what I've discovered in the various years that I've worked in
1:46.4	indigenous cultures, it's very helpful to make the effort, eh, just as you are, to pronounce the word.
1:53.7	And people are very generous in terms of mispronunciations
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