Decolonizing Mental Health
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Overview
Subject area
PSY
Catalog Number
32120
Course Title
Decolonizing Mental Health
Department(s)
Description
Decolonizing Mental Health will offer students a critical perspective regarding the contextual reality of contemporary Western/American mental health practice. Critical to this discussion is an understanding of the profound trauma experienced by ‘vulnerable’ folk, at the hands of ‘powerful, oppressive’ folk. Central to this discussion will be a focus upon the life and professional psychiatric practice of Dr. Frantz Fanon. Dr. Fanon’s professional commitment to providing ‘healing’ to those experiencing mental ‘distress’, continually interfaced with his personal ‘lived experience’ as a Black North African man, struggling to survive, in a White, Western, Racist, Patriarchal, Homophobic world.
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
037675