Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Sebastienne Grant is a professor of critical psychology at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently serves as the program director for a Master's program in Critical Psychology and Human Services. Dr. Grant received her PhD in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia.

Grounded in the traditions of Buddhism, critical psychology, existential-humanistic psychology, and transpersonal psychology, Dr. Grant is concerned with questions of wellbeing—both individual and societal.

She has written on transhumanism from Buddhist and existential perspectives, as well as the tensions of social justice under neoliberalism. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled "Addressing the Empty Self: Toward Socially Just Subjectivities" in the book Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice.

This book was co-written with several colleagues, including previous MIA podcast guest Dr. Bethany Morris.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Madden America Podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:14.8	Hello, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. I'm Micah Engel, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of
0:22.7	West Georgia, and a research newswriter for the Madden America website. Today I'm joined by Dr. Sebastian
0:29.9	Grant. Dr. Grant is an educator and theoretical psychologist who currently directs a master's
0:36.9	program in critical psychology
0:39.5	and human services at Prescott College in Arizona.
0:43.9	She received her own master's degree as well as her Ph.D.
0:48.0	at the University of West Georgia's psychology, consciousness, and society program.
0:53.4	An integrative thinker, Dr. Grant combines humanistic, consciousness, and society program. An integrative thinker, Dr. Grant combines
0:56.5	humanistic, existential, Buddhist, transpersonal, and critical social perspectives in her
1:03.7	unique approach to psychology. Her work includes both academic outreach, such as the recent book chapter titled Addressing the Empty Self towards socially just subjectivities, as well as engaging students in the classroom.
1:19.9	Dr. Grant teaches, according to principles of collaboration and transformation, rather than simply passing along information. Central to her work, both theoretically
1:30.8	and in the classroom, are notions of compassion, morality, social justice, attitudes toward death,
1:40.4	ethics around technology, and critical reflexivity. Welcome, Dr. Grant. Thank you for that introduction,
1:47.9	and thank you for having me. No problem. Happy to be talking to you. So just to start, could you tell us
1:56.1	about how you came to psychology, particularly the integrative and the critical kind of psychology that you do.
2:03.6	Yeah, I think, you know, like a lot of people, I came to psychology because I had personal
2:09.6	experiences with the suffering caused by psychological struggles. I grew up with a single mom who had
2:17.1	bipolar disorder, chronic depression, and I was super
2:23.3	close to her and loved her very much and saw the impact on her life and also on my own
2:30.2	life.
2:31.5	And I think that was what made me interested in going into psychology as an undergrad
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